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==Page 163==
'''Petit Larousse''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_Larousse A French-language encyclopedic dictionary], still in use today. Not really much else to it. Perhaps the reference is merely an insight Doc's character, walking a fine line between educated and dopey.

==Page 166==
'''Brylcreem''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brylcreem Brylcreem] is a hair styling oil/gel for men that was very popular. It gives hair a wet, oily look.

'''on the natch''' 
"natch" is short for "natural" and "on the natch," in this context, means sober. On [[Chapter_15#Page_273|pg. 273]], the perennially sober Bigfoot is described as a "literal-minded natch-meister."

==Page 168==
'''Leuzinger High''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuzinger_High_School real] high school, in Lawndale, California, which - particularly in the story's time period - was a relatively undesirable and low-priced city in the LA area.

'''Dr. Blatnoyd''' 
Probably a play on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_%28Russia%29 term] of Russian origin, meaning a man with underworld connections or a career criminal.

==Page 169==
'''Foreign Affairs, Sinsemilla Tips, Modern Psychopath, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists''' Foreign Affairs is a real (and highly-respected) journal, as is Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; the other two are fake. Sinsemilla is a highly potent form of marijuana obtained from unpollinated female plants. Modern Psychpath is probably a takeoff on either Modern Psychoanalysis or (Journal of) Modern Psychology, both real journals.

==Page 170==
'''Section Eight hippies''' 
Section Eight is low income housing funded with a federal subsidy.

==Page 171==
'''Japonica Fenway''' 
"Japonica" is just a Latinization of "Japanese," but it is most commonly used in formal Latin plant names. There are a wide variety of "____ Japonica" plants, such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_japonica Camellia Japonica]. While it's not really possible to make any universal statement about such widely varied species, they tend to be ornamental and hardy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Crocker Fenway''' 
It is possible the first name is inspired by the character "Crocker Jarmon" from the movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068334/ The Candidate (1972)]. The character in the movie is an establishment, incumbent GOP Senator from California.

The first names of both characters may also refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_National_Bank Crocker National Bank], which historically was a conservative, Republican institution. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847658,00.html 1936 Time Magazine reference], [http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-27/business/fi-7509_1 1986 Article].

'''though Doc may once have rescued Japonica''' 
Reminiscent of Carmen Sternwood, the unstable babe in Raymond Chandler's ''The Big Sleep'' (1939), and her rescue by detective Philip Marlowe. There was a wealthy father there, too.

'''the ancient American Indian belief that if you save somebody's life, you are responsible for them from then on, forever''' 
Last seen in Against the Day with Foley Walker and Scarsdale Vibe.

==Page 172==
'''Governor Reagan''' 
Ronald Reagan was governor of California from 1967 to 1975.

==Page 174==
'''"Miss Fenway," the doctor began to explain, "may seem a little psychotic today..."''' 
Reminiscent of the psychodontist, Dr. Dudley Eigenvalue, in V. From page 138 of that book (the beginning of chapter seven): "Back around the turn of the century, psychoanalysis had usurped from the priesthood the role of father-confessor. Now, it seemed, the analyst in his turn was about to be deposed by, of all people, the dentist." In general, "Smile Maintenance," at least as practiced by Dr. Blatnoyd, seems to cover some mixture of dentistry, psychology, and "hoddible fucking!"

==Page 175==
[[File:MercedesSedan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1960 Mercedes-Benz W128 Sedan, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W128 Wikipedia]]]
'''Mercedes sedan''' 
ten-year-old Mercedes sedan with a roof panel

'''late rush-hour traffic''' 
Should be afternoon, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970, but why would there be rush hour traffic? Why would postcards be delivered today, and why would the Golden Fang be open?.

==Page 176==
'''outdoor concerts where thousands . . . public self''' 
A good description of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock Woodstock], which had just taken place the previous year.

'''each person was listening in solitude, confinement and mutual silence''' 
Perhaps a foreshadowing of the iPod generation?

'''''head''phones!''' 
Here, "head" refers to a drug user, as in [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=head+shop "head shop"].

'''Doc noticed (a) it was now dark''' 
Should be evening, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970.

==Page 180==
'''Things were weird for a few days with the Dart''' 
The timeline gets broken here. From the end of the book to this point--from April 26 to May 8--the narrator has made it easy to follow the events of the book in real time. The narrator puts Doc to bed at night, gets him up in the morning, points out television shows and events.

The first half of the book, thirteen days up to the "few days" the Dart was in the shop, can also be matched with real time events. For example, Doc's parents visit during a division semifinal game between the 76ers and the Bucks. That series was played from March 25 to April 3. That would mean that the Dart was in the shop for a couple of weeks. Given the regret that Doc felt over a less-than-24-hour delay in the first and second days of the narrative, it's difficult to believe that he would drop the case for that long. Perhaps some kind of ''Dark Shadows'' parallel time is at work.

Or maybe Pynchon, contrary to reputation but like most authors, hasn't been perfectly careful about the relationship between his story's timeline and the real calendar's.

'''When he finally went over to pick up his ride''' 
Probably morning, Saturday, April 25, 1970. See below for an explanation of "probably". The obvious reference is to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who also came back on a Sunday. This is not Easter Sunday, though. It occurred on March 29 in 1970.

==Page 181==

'''Quonset hut''' 
Prefabricated metal building with a semicircular cross section. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Wikipedia]

''''64 Dodge Dart'''
[[Image:1964_Dodge_Dart.jpg|left|thumb|210px|1964 Dodge Dart Sedan, photo by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:64_Dodge_Dart_F34.jpg Scheinwerfermann]
]]

 
==Page 182==
'''I'll buy you lunch''' 
Probably morning, Saturday, April 25, 1970. I say probably because it seems unlikely that Doc could have lunch with Tito, make a few phone calls, and drive to Ojai, getting there before lunchtime. The narrator has been pretty careful, though, from the end of the book to this point in noting the ends and beginnings of days.

'''They went down Pico . . . before repeating an ethnic category.''' 
A possible nod to noted LA chowhound Johnathan Gold, who got his start as a Pulitzer Prize winning food critic eating his way across ethnic LA along Pico Blvd. Profiled here on NPR's [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=110 "This American Life"] (See: ''Act Five. Taste.'')

==Page 184==

'''D and D, Tito''' 
Deaf and Dumb, i.e., my lips are sealed...

'''1934 Hispano-Suiza J12'''
[[File:Hispano-SuizaJ12.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Hispano-Suiza J12, photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano-Suiza Wikipedia]‎]]

==Page 185==

'''Gold fang''' 
According to Google language tools, the Greek for "gold tooth" would be pronounced [http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&text=gold+tooth&sl=en&tl=el# "chrysó dónti"].

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==Page 166==
'''Brylcreem''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brylcreem Brylcreem] is a hair styling oil/gel for men that was very popular. It gives hair a wet, oily look.

'''on the natch''' 
"natch" is short for "natural" and "on the natch," in this context, means sober. On [[Chapter_15#Page_273|pg. 273]], the perennially sober Bigfoot is described as a "literal-minded natch-meister."

==Page 168==
'''Leuzinger High''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuzinger_High_School real] high school, in Lawndale, California, which - particularly in the story's time period - was a relatively undesirable and low-priced city in the LA area.

'''Dr. Blatnoyd''' 
Probably a play on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_%28Russia%29 term] of Russian origin, meaning a man with underworld connections or a career criminal.

==Page 169==
'''Foreign Affairs, Sinsemilla Tips, Modern Psychopath, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists''' Foreign Affairs is a real (and highly-respected) journal, as is Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; the other two are fake. Sinsemilla is a highly potent form of marijuana obtained from unpollinated female plants. Modern Psychpath is probably a takeoff on either Modern Psychoanalysis or (Journal of) Modern Psychology, both real journals.

==Page 170==
'''Section Eight hippies''' 
Section Eight is low income housing funded with a federal subsidy.

==Page 171==
'''Japonica Fenway''' 
"Japonica" is just a Latinization of "Japanese," but it is most commonly used in formal Latin plant names. There are a wide variety of "____ Japonica" plants, such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_japonica Camellia Japonica]. While it's not really possible to make any universal statement about such widely varied species, they tend to be ornamental and hardy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Crocker Fenway''' 
It is possible the first name is inspired by the character "Crocker Jarmon" from the movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068334/ The Candidate (1972)]. The character in the movie is an establishment, incumbent GOP Senator from California.

The first names of both characters may also refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_National_Bank Crocker National Bank], which historically was a conservative, Republican institution. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847658,00.html 1936 Time Magazine reference], [http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-27/business/fi-7509_1 1986 Article].

'''though Doc may once have rescued Japonica''' 
Reminiscent of Carmen Sternwood, the unstable babe in Raymond Chandler's ''The Big Sleep'' (1939), and her rescue by detective Philip Marlowe. There was a wealthy father there, too.

'''the ancient American Indian belief that if you save somebody's life, you are responsible for them from then on, forever''' 
Last seen in Against the Day with Foley Walker and Scarsdale Vibe.

==Page 172==
'''Governor Reagan''' 
Ronald Reagan was governor of California from 1967 to 1975.

==Page 174==
'''"Miss Fenway," the doctor began to explain, "may seem a little psychotic today..."''' 
Reminiscent of the psychodontist, Dr. Dudley Eigenvalue, in V. From page 138 of that book (the beginning of chapter seven): "Back around the turn of the century, psychoanalysis had usurped from the priesthood the role of father-confessor. Now, it seemed, the analyst in his turn was about to be deposed by, of all people, the dentist." In general, "Smile Maintenance," at least as practiced by Dr. Blatnoyd, seems to cover some mixture of dentistry, psychology, and "hoddible fucking!"

==Page 175==
[[File:MercedesSedan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1960 Mercedes-Benz W128 Sedan, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W128 Wikipedia]]]
'''Mercedes sedan''' 
ten-year-old Mercedes sedan with a roof panel

'''late rush-hour traffic''' 
Should be afternoon, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970, but why would there be rush hour traffic? Why would postcards be delivered today, and why would the Golden Fang be open?.

==Page 176==
'''outdoor concerts where thousands . . . public self''' 
A good description of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock Woodstock], which had just taken place the previous year.

'''each person was listening in solitude, confinement and mutual silence''' 
Perhaps a foreshadowing of the iPod generation?

'''''head''phones!''' 
Here, "head" refers to a drug user, as in [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=head+shop "head shop"].

'''Doc noticed (a) it was now dark''' 
Should be evening, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970.

==Page 180==
'''Things were weird for a few days with the Dart''' 
The timeline gets broken here. From the end of the book to this point--from April 26 to May 8--the narrator has made it easy to follow the events of the book in real time. The narrator puts Doc to bed at night, gets him up in the morning, points out television shows and events.

The first half of the book, thirteen days up to the "few days" the Dart was in the shop, can also be matched with real time events. For example, Doc's parents visit during a division semifinal game between the 76ers and the Bucks. That series was played from March 25 to April 3. That would mean that the Dart was in the shop for a couple of weeks. Given the regret that Doc felt over a less-than-24-hour delay in the first and second days of the narrative, it's difficult to believe that he would drop the case for that long. Perhaps some kind of ''Dark Shadows'' parallel time is at work.

Or maybe Pynchon, contrary to reputation but like most authors, hasn't been perfectly careful about the relationship between his story's timeline and the real calendar's.

'''When he finally went over to pick up his ride''' 
Probably morning, Saturday, April 25, 1970. See below for an explanation of "probably". The obvious reference is to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who also came back on a Sunday. This is not Easter Sunday, though. It occurred on March 29 in 1970.

==Page 181==

'''Quonset hut''' 
Prefabricated metal building with a semicircular cross section. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Wikipedia]

''''64 Dodge Dart'''
[[Image:1964_Dodge_Dart.jpg|left|thumb|210px|1964 Dodge Dart Sedan, photo by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:64_Dodge_Dart_F34.jpg Scheinwerfermann]
]]

 
==Page 182==
'''I'll buy you lunch''' 
Probably morning, Saturday, April 25, 1970. I say probably because it seems unlikely that Doc could have lunch with Tito, make a few phone calls, and drive to Ojai, getting there before lunchtime. The narrator has been pretty careful, though, from the end of the book to this point in noting the ends and beginnings of days.

'''They went down Pico . . . before repeating an ethnic category.''' 
A possible nod to noted LA chowhound Johnathan Gold, who got his start as a Pulitzer Prize winning food critic eating his way across ethnic LA along Pico Blvd. Profiled here on NPR's [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=110 "This American Life"] (See: ''Act Five. Taste.'')

==Page 184==

'''D and D, Tito''' 
Deaf and Dumb, i.e., my lips are sealed...

'''1934 Hispano-Suiza J12'''
[[File:Hispano-SuizaJ12.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Hispano-Suiza J12, photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano-Suiza Wikipedia]‎]]

==Page 185==

'''Gold fang''' 
According to Google language tools, the Greek for "gold tooth" would be pronounced [http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&text=gold+tooth&sl=en&tl=el# "chrysó dónti"].

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==Page 166==
'''Petit Larousse''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_Larousse A French-language encyclopedic dictionary], still in use today. Not really much else to it. Perhaps the reference is merely an insight Doc's character, walking a fine line between educated and dopey.

'''Brylcreem''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brylcreem Brylcreem] is a hair styling oil/gel for men that was very popular. It gives hair a wet, oily look.

'''on the natch''' 
"natch" is short for "natural" and "on the natch," in this context, means sober. On [[Chapter_15#Page_273|pg. 273]], the perennially sober Bigfoot is described as a "literal-minded natch-meister."

==Page 168==
'''Leuzinger High''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuzinger_High_School real] high school, in Lawndale, California, which - particularly in the story's time period - was a relatively undesirable and low-priced city in the LA area.

'''Dr. Blatnoyd''' 
Probably a play on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_%28Russia%29 term] of Russian origin, meaning a man with underworld connections or a career criminal.

==Page 169==
'''Foreign Affairs, Sinsemilla Tips, Modern Psychopath, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists''' Foreign Affairs is a real (and highly-respected) journal, as is Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; the other two are fake. Sinsemilla is a highly potent form of marijuana obtained from unpollinated female plants. Modern Psychpath is probably a takeoff on either Modern Psychoanalysis or (Journal of) Modern Psychology, both real journals.

==Page 170==
'''Section Eight hippies''' 
Section Eight is low income housing funded with a federal subsidy.

==Page 171==
'''Japonica Fenway''' 
"Japonica" is just a Latinization of "Japanese," but it is most commonly used in formal Latin plant names. There are a wide variety of "____ Japonica" plants, such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_japonica Camellia Japonica]. While it's not really possible to make any universal statement about such widely varied species, they tend to be ornamental and hardy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Crocker Fenway''' 
It is possible the first name is inspired by the character "Crocker Jarmon" from the movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068334/ The Candidate (1972)]. The character in the movie is an establishment, incumbent GOP Senator from California.

The first names of both characters may also refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_National_Bank Crocker National Bank], which historically was a conservative, Republican institution. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847658,00.html 1936 Time Magazine reference], [http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-27/business/fi-7509_1 1986 Article].

'''though Doc may once have rescued Japonica''' 
Reminiscent of Carmen Sternwood, the unstable babe in Raymond Chandler's ''The Big Sleep'' (1939), and her rescue by detective Philip Marlowe. There was a wealthy father there, too.

'''the ancient American Indian belief that if you save somebody's life, you are responsible for them from then on, forever''' 
Last seen in Against the Day with Foley Walker and Scarsdale Vibe.

==Page 172==
'''Governor Reagan''' 
Ronald Reagan was governor of California from 1967 to 1975.

==Page 174==
'''"Miss Fenway," the doctor began to explain, "may seem a little psychotic today..."''' 
Reminiscent of the psychodontist, Dr. Dudley Eigenvalue, in V. From page 138 of that book (the beginning of chapter seven): "Back around the turn of the century, psychoanalysis had usurped from the priesthood the role of father-confessor. Now, it seemed, the analyst in his turn was about to be deposed by, of all people, the dentist." In general, "Smile Maintenance," at least as practiced by Dr. Blatnoyd, seems to cover some mixture of dentistry, psychology, and "hoddible fucking!"

==Page 175==
[[File:MercedesSedan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1960 Mercedes-Benz W128 Sedan, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W128 Wikipedia]]]
'''Mercedes sedan''' 
ten-year-old Mercedes sedan with a roof panel

'''late rush-hour traffic''' 
Should be afternoon, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970, but why would there be rush hour traffic? Why would postcards be delivered today, and why would the Golden Fang be open?.

==Page 176==
'''outdoor concerts where thousands . . . public self''' 
A good description of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock Woodstock], which had just taken place the previous year.

'''each person was listening in solitude, confinement and mutual silence''' 
Perhaps a foreshadowing of the iPod generation?

'''''head''phones!''' 
Here, "head" refers to a drug user, as in [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=head+shop "head shop"].

'''Doc noticed (a) it was now dark''' 
Should be evening, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970.

==Page 180==
'''Things were weird for a few days with the Dart''' 
The timeline gets broken here. From the end of the book to this point--from April 26 to May 8--the narrator has made it easy to follow the events of the book in real time. The narrator puts Doc to bed at night, gets him up in the morning, points out television shows and events.

The first half of the book, thirteen days up to the "few days" the Dart was in the shop, can also be matched with real time events. For example, Doc's parents visit during a division semifinal game between the 76ers and the Bucks. That series was played from March 25 to April 3. That would mean that the Dart was in the shop for a couple of weeks. Given the regret that Doc felt over a less-than-24-hour delay in the first and second days of the narrative, it's difficult to believe that he would drop the case for that long. Perhaps some kind of ''Dark Shadows'' parallel time is at work.

Or maybe Pynchon, contrary to reputation but like most authors, hasn't been perfectly careful about the relationship between his story's timeline and the real calendar's.

'''When he finally went over to pick up his ride''' 
Probably morning, Saturday, April 25, 1970. See below for an explanation of "probably". The obvious reference is to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who also came back on a Sunday. This is not Easter Sunday, though. It occurred on March 29 in 1970.

==Page 181==

'''Quonset hut''' 
Prefabricated metal building with a semicircular cross section. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Wikipedia]

''''64 Dodge Dart'''
[[Image:1964_Dodge_Dart.jpg|left|thumb|210px|1964 Dodge Dart Sedan, photo by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:64_Dodge_Dart_F34.jpg Scheinwerfermann]
]]

 
==Page 182==
'''I'll buy you lunch''' 
Probably morning, Saturday, April 25, 1970. I say probably because it seems unlikely that Doc could have lunch with Tito, make a few phone calls, and drive to Ojai, getting there before lunchtime. The narrator has been pretty careful, though, from the end of the book to this point in noting the ends and beginnings of days.

'''They went down Pico . . . before repeating an ethnic category.''' 
A possible nod to noted LA chowhound Johnathan Gold, who got his start as a Pulitzer Prize winning food critic eating his way across ethnic LA along Pico Blvd. Profiled here on NPR's [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=110 "This American Life"] (See: ''Act Five. Taste.'')

==Page 184==

'''D and D, Tito''' 
Deaf and Dumb, i.e., my lips are sealed...

'''1934 Hispano-Suiza J12'''
[[File:Hispano-SuizaJ12.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Hispano-Suiza J12, photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano-Suiza Wikipedia]‎]]

==Page 185==

'''Gold fang''' 
According to Google language tools, the Greek for "gold tooth" would be pronounced [http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&text=gold+tooth&sl=en&tl=el# "chrysó dónti"].

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==Page 124==
'''headed up to Topanga that afternoon''' 
Afternoon, the ninth day of the narrative, Wednesday, April 1, 1970.

'''Stone Turntable''' 
The name is presumably intended to be a jokey reference to Rolling Stone: a stone turntable being not a rolling stone, but a rotating one. It also suggests the phrase "no stone unturned", which is appropriate both to journalism and detective work.

==Page 125==
'''Jurgensen's''' 
Jurgensen's was an upscale, gourmet grocery store with locations in Beverly Hills, Pasadena, and throughout greater LA.

'''porte cochere''' 
Porch-like structure on the entrance of a building, large enough for vehicles, horses, and carriages to pass through, providing shelter from the weather.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porte-cochere Wikipedia]

[[File:Hokusai.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Great Wave off Kanagawa, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]]]
'''Hokusai's famous ''Great Wave off Kanagawa''''' 
a famous woodblock print. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]
<div style="clear:both"></div>

==Page 126==
'''uncountableth''' 
In mathematics, "uncountable" is used to describe the size of infinite sets larger than the set of natural numbers. Pynchon's use of the word here is deliberately oxymoronic. See also the reference to George Cantor further in the same paragraph.

'''the Boards...''' 
As the surf band that makes it big, the Boards suggest the Beach Boys. Pynchon himself once visited the home of Brian Wilson in Beverly Hills. See [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pynchon_and_Brian_Wilson Pynchon and Brian Wilson]. Perhaps this chapter drew some inspiration from that visit?

'''Cantor's Delicatessen''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor Georg Cantor] (1845-1918) was a German mathematician who pioneered the subject of set theory, now at the foundation of all modern mathematics. He proved that there are different sizes of infinity - for example, the set of natural numbers is smaller than the set of real numbers, though both sets are infinite. The name of the restaurant is a play on the real [http://www.cantersdeli.com/ Canter's Deli] in Los Angeles, established 1931.

==Page 127==
'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_dick Spotted Dick]''' 
Spotted Dick is a suet pudding served in England. Possibly a parody of British band Cream.

'''[http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_762505728/general_pause.html General Pause]''' 
A musical rest during which the entire ensemble remains silent.

==Page 128==
'''''Dark Shadows''. . . The Collins family . . . parallel time''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Shadows ''Dark Shadows''] was an innovative TV show in the late 1960's and early 70's that focuses on the Collins family. The show included many Gothic elements, including vampires, zombies, and witches. It also played with time travel and parallel universes in which the same character would be played by different actors or the same actor would play different characters.

In both parallel time storylines (1970 and 1840), one or more characters went to a specific room in Collinwood which shifted periodically from one universe to the other, so if you were in the room at the wrong (right) time, suddenly you were surrounded by people who looked like the people you knew (played by the same actors), but had different personalities, different relationships, and sometimes different names.

If this is April 1, 1970, here's a plot summary of today's show from [http://www.darkshadows.com/cgi-bin/eplist.pl?ep=983 darkshadows.com], all in parallel time today:

:Daniel plans to drive Maggie out of Collinwood. Quentin tells Chris to make sure Bruno Hess, another loyal friend of Angelique, is kicked off the estate. Daniel frightens Maggie by having Amy hum a tune, making it sound like it was coming from Angelique's portrait; Amy later tells Daniel that she did not make the humming sound.

'''parallel time''' 
This paragraph ''may'' be a coded reference to Pynchon's own [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Against the Day] and its reception. ''Against the Day'' features parallel universes/time (?) and confounded readers nation- (and world-)wide. This interpretation may be a stretch.

In [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''] Pynchon talks about [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirror_Time "Mirror Time"]:

:"Rachel was looking into the mirror at an angle of 45°, and so had a view of the face turned toward the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time, co-existing, cancelling one another exactly out. Were there many such reference points, scattered through the world, perhaps only at nodes like this room which housed a transient population of the imperfect, the dissatisfied [...]" ([http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirror_Time ''V.'', p.46])

'''Hanon''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanon Hanon] was a 19th-century French piano teacher and composer. He's most famous for developing exercises for piano students.

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtuoso_Pianist_in_60_Exercises exercises], rather than the guy who wrote them, are the primary focus of the reference. These are the basic finger exercises that almost everyone who took piano played for some period, and almost everyone who has had a family member who took piano listend to over and over for seemingly endless periods. They're basically short, hurried, unmelodic scales that work up and down the keyboard without any regard for key. The more advanced exercises feature 4th- and 5th-finger repetitions and trills that are about as pleasant to listen to as a skipping record. They would sound particularly silly on a portable Farfisa, and practicing them on a Farfisa would be strange, as the instrument, unlike a piano, has soft organ keys with virtually no action.

An [http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/84678_nuehq/HanonFarfisa.mp3 MP3] of Hanon's Exercise 1 played on a Farfisa (actually a synthesizer emulating a Farfisa).

'''Farfisa''' 
One of the first electric keyboards/organs used in rock 'n' roll. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farfisa Wikipedia entry...] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkvK638yKuY "Ninety-six Tears" by ? & the Mysterians] is a classic example of the Farfisa sound, as is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6x_m4zvFs&feature=fvw "Light My Fire" by the Doors].

==Page 130==
'''George Formby''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby,_Jr. George Formby, Jr.] performed "Leaning on a Lamppost" (written by Noel Gay) which Herman's Hermits covered. Tyrone Slothrop, protagonist of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' is described as "sort of an American George Formby, if you can imagine such a thing." Obvious influence on "The Bonzo Dog Band." Here's a video of George Formby singing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEymZ3rXOmc Leaning On A Lamp Post.]

==Page 131==
'''Donna Lee''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Lee Donna Lee], way more than Coy's usual 1 or 2 note solos.

'''abrazo''' 
Spanish for hug.

==Page 132==
'''third ballet position''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positions_of_the_feet_in_ballet here]

'''louche''' 
Of questionable taste or morality; decadent.

'''psilocybe mushrooms''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe ''Psilocybe mushrooms''], pronounced either ''sill uh suy bee'' (accent on the first) or ''suy luh suh bee'' (accent on the last) mushrooms [I think], is another term for "magic mushrooms" which are known for their psychedelic or hallucinogenic properties.

'''Doc suddenly found himself fleeing through the corridors of the creepy old mansion with uncertain numbers of screaming flesh-eating creatures behind him.''' 
This line, along with Doc and Denis' visit to Topanga as a whole, is highly reminiscent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo ''Scooby-Doo''], especially with Denis raiding the kitchen and Jade dropping in on them out of a tree. Doc lampshades the cartoonishness of the scene in the middle of their escape with "'''What am I, the Skipper?'''"

==Page 133==
[[File:Example.jpg|thumb|right|1949 Mercury Woodie [http://www.pbase.com/xl1ken/image/3748891 © Ken Leonard] used with permission]]
'''1949 Mercury woodie''' 
''The Mod Squad'' drove a Mercury woodie, either a '49 or '50.

==Page 134==
'''more heel-and-toe double-clutching'''

See the couplet, ''GR'' p. 626:
''Double-declutchingly, heel and toe, away goes Roger Mexico.''

'''no longer saw the headlights''' 
Evening, the ninth day of the narrative, Wednesday, April 1, 1970.

==Page 135==
'''hoddible''' 
The way an old-movie society lady might pronounce "horrible"

==Page 138==
'''van Houten, Leslie''' 
b. 1949. A former member of Charles Manson's "Family" who was convicted of the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. She remains imprisoned at the California Institution for Women in Chino, San Bernadino County, California.

'''did he happen to catch the game with Phoenix''' 
Daytime, the tenth day of the narrative, Thursday, April 2, 1970. Doc is probably referring to the second game of the Western Conference playoffs. The Lakers beat Phoenix 114-101 on March 29. Again, Pynchon has anchored the text in real time by referring to an NBA playoff game.

This is probably as good a time as any to mention that the 69-70 NBA season was a big one for Lakers fans. Bill Russell had just retired as a player, after leading the Celtics to 11 of the last 13 championships. Finally, other teams would have a shot at the title. The Lakers thought that the title would be theirs. Unfortunately for Lakers fans, so did the Knicks.

Pynchon also uses Lakers games in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_15#Page_377 ''Vineland'']. He depicts the 1984 NBA Finals via a TV-movie rather than live, in keeping with ''Vineland's'' themes and its late summer 1984 timeline.

'''Upstairs, Bigfoot, strangely jumpy today''' 
The '''today''' is what identifies this as Daytime, the tenth day of the narrative, Thursday, April 2, 1970.

==Page 140==
'''a hippie belief of the moment''' 
I don't know about the magazine articles, but this rumor was making the rounds at just about this time. It is odd, however, that Bigfoot's addiction to, and supply of, chocolate-covered frozen bananas is described in such detail here, and then is never mentioned again in the novel.

'''--not logical, Captain''' 
Star Trek reference, a phrase often spoken by Spock to Kirk.

==Page 141==
[[File:Triumph_Bonneville_T120.jpg|thumb|right|Triumph Bonneville T120, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Bonneville_T120 Wikipedia]]]
'''Triumph Bonneville T120'''

[[File:Kawasaki_Mach_III.jpg|thumb|right|Kawasaki Mach III, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/optikalblitz/2447598991/ optikal / Creative Commons]]] 
'''Kawasaki Mach III'''

==Page 142==
'''Around lunchtime, next day''' 
Midday, the eleventh day of the narrative, Friday, April 3, 1970.

'''Sinvergüenza''' 
Spanish for "scoundrel" or "rogue."

==Page 143==
'''SS396''' 
[http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cars_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice#SS396 Photo]

==Page 144==
'''esta gente no sabe nada''' 
Spanish for "these people know nothing."

==Page 145==
'''hijo de puta''' 
Spanish for "son of a bitch."

'''otra vez''' 
Spanish for "again/one more time."

'''Looking forward to a peaceful morning in the office''' 
Morning, the twelfth day of the narrative, Saturday, April 4, 1970.

==Page 146==
'''"Cootie food!'''" 
What Doc means is "le coup de foudre," aka "bolt of lightning." This echos Reef's 'rounder Italian'; "Say surly topple!" he would scream..." (page 889) from [[Against the Day]]. 
The English meaning, if it has one, and the explanation for Clancy Charlock's response to Doc, is unclear. It may perhaps refer to the childish fear of being infected by a sort of imaginary germ borne by the opposite sex and known as "cooties," which - possibly - makes a member of the opposite sex whom you touch "cootie food." Or, it could just be a very idiosyncratic reference to oral sex. 

Another possibility is that Doc, whose French is likely weaker than his Spanish, memorized the phrase phonetically as "cootie food", since he would not have known the spelling when it was told to him. Assuming Clancy understands French, or at least this particular idiom, her reply is fairly natural.

The phrase is apparently used - at least in the South, and not commonly - to refer to unappetizing or unclean food.

Cooties is slang for crabs or lice.

==Page 147==
'''Now, Voyager (1942)''' 
from Wikipedia: Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty, who borrowed her title from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want," which reads in its entirety, "The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, / Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find." Bette Davis' portrayal garnered her an Academy Award nomination, and the film continues to be popular not only due to its star power but also the "emotional crescendos" engendered in the storyline.

The film includes the line: "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon... we have the stars."

The film's romantic smoke sequence, repeated during the film and much parodied, featured Paul Henried placing two cigarettes in his lips, lighting them both, then handing one to Bette Davis. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 YouTube]

==Page 148==
'''That night Doc met Clancy''' 
Evening, the twelfth day of the narrative, Saturday, April 4, 1970.

'''Zubin Mehta''' 
A famous conductor, Zubin Mehta was the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1962-1978. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zubin_Mehta] In 1970, one of Mehta's projects was a collaboration with Frank Zappa (whose image had just appeared on a t-shirt on pg 146).

'''massé shots''' 
In billiards, a massé shot is when a player strikes a ball with the cue at a sharp angle and causes the ball to curve drastically or even eventually reverse direction. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0ly8Ee_7jM Here's an example.] Some pool halls (like this one) forbid this kind of shot because it often leads to scratching or tearing of the felt.

==Page 151==
'''forget the Smith''' 
Doc is presumably referring to the revolver in his ankle holser, which Boris rather obviously noticed a few lines earlier ("glancing quickly down in the direction of Doc's ankle rig"). "Smith" is short for "Smith & Wesson."

==Page 153==
'''"Happy Trails to You"''' 
Besides the reference to Roy Roger's theme song, this phrase is a favorite double entendre among those who use psychedelic drugs. "Acid trails" are a common hallucination produced by LSD.

Also the title (and last track) of the 1968, "live", genre-defining, acid-rock album by the Quicksilver Messenger Service [http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1108947/a/Happy+Trails.htm]

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==Page 89==
'''Doc called Sancho next morning''' 
Morning, Saturday, March 28, 1970, the fifth day of the narrative.

'''Ginger . . . Skipper . . . Gilligan . . . Thurston Howell III . . . Lovey''' 
All are characters from the 1960s TV show [[G#gilligan|''Gilligan's Island'']]. The "code" would presumably be whether the aspiring actress (Ginger/Shasta) would end up with Gilligan/Doc, or whether she would end up with the rich man (Thurston Howell III/Mickey Wolfmann), who might or might not ever divorce his wife (Lovey/Sloane Wolfmann).

==Page 90==
'''Varathaned hatch-covers''' 
[http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGBrand.asp?bid=12 Varathane] is a brand of wood stains and polyurethane sealants.

'''Charlotte Amalie''' 
The largest city and capital of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Amalie,_United_States_Virgin_Islands US Virgina Islands].

'''Like new debt... from institutions in places like South Dakota that you send away for by filling out the back of match cover''' 
Sauncho's quote here echoes almost exactly Zoyd's thoughts in ''Vineland'' in regard to Isaiah Two Four's business proposition: "expecting some address in a distant state, obtained from a matchbook cover." (p. 19, ''Vineland'')

==Page 91==
'''Thomas Arnould''' 
An error. Should be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Arnould "Joseph Arnould"], who wrote ''Law of Marine Insurance'' (1848).

'''Theophilus Parsons''' 
There were two men ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons father] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons_(professor) son]) named Theopilus Parsons in the nineteenth century. This reference is to the younger one, who published A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and General Average in 1868.

==Page 92==
'''Your stomach isn't it.''' 
A listless way of saying "It's your stomach, so feel free to order whatever horrible food you desire."

'''L'il buddy''' 
Another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. "L'il buddy" was the captain's nickname for Gilligan. See [[#Page 89|page 89]] for another instance of Doc being linked to Gilligan.

Also, Hector calls Zoyd this in ''Vineland'', see p. 26. The contraction is spelled li'l in ''Vineland'' but l'il in ''Inherent Vice''. The former is technically correct, since the elision (the "tt") is after the "i" rather than before it.

Also, this phrase appears in ''Against the Day'', [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_195 pg. 195].

'''Eel Trovatore''' 
A perhaps obvious pun on Il Trovatore, the Verdi opera.

'''head for the toilet''' 
Another pun: the toilet on a boat is called the "head".

'''a tremendous nitroglycerin explosion in Halifax Harbor'''

The largest accidental explosion in history, December 6, 1917. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion]

Note that the 1917 Halifax explosion was not caused by nitroglycerin, but by TNT and other wartime explosives.

'''Burke Stodger''' 
This name is likely derived from a 1910 ''noir''-ish murder-mystery novel ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk. Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop, are two main characters. [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=paternoster+ruby+charles+edmonds+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkqjKBGj4&sig=KGhSLPxiRPQqvVPLhOQ5WNEzSE8&hl=en&ei=mfBrStfrF4uAsgPltqmWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Google Books] Perhaps Pynchon's slyly recycling here some unused stuff from his vast research for ''Against the Day''? A excerpt from Walk's novel:

:"Nasty case," Stodger was imparting, in queer staccato sentences. "Shouldn't have much difficulty, though; responsibility lies between two men. Here all last night. Nobody else. Callahan and O'Brien holdin' 'em. One 's Page's private secretary; fellow named Burke Alexander Stilwell Burke. Peach of a monicker, ain't it? Has all three sections on his cards.

:[...]

:Suddenly she snuggled closer and clasped her hands tightly upon my shoulder. Her hair teased my cheek, and the delicate perfume of it made me light-headed. Twisting her pretty head sideways, she flashed an arch look at me from under her lashes, then glanced quickly away again. Blue eyes and long dark lashes are a potently disturbing combination.

:"Well," she sighed, "the Page case may have cost you a fortune, but it gave you ''me''. And ''I'' for one am very content and happy, Mr. Swift." 

Later one can see certain parallels between Burke Stodger's experience with the schooner and Mickey's.

==Page 93==
'''a three-hour tour''' 
Yet another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. This is a quote from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycmb7_LvsA theme song].

==Page 94==
'''Hoover Library at Stanford'''

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library--not J. Edgar.

==Page 95==
'''"deep interrogation"''' 
Well, it ''could'' be a reference to throwing folks into the deep blue sea. However, in the 1970s, long before Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and "enhanced interrogation," Britain utilized “deep interrogation” techniques in an effort to defeat the Irish Republican Army. ''Constitutions in Crisis: Political Violence and the Rule of Law'' by John E. Finn (Oxford University Press, 1990) examines how the efforts of two western liberal democracies, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, to cope with domestic terrorism threatens their constitutional integrity. Finn argues first that widespread political violence challenges the presuppositions of constitutional authority in any liberal democracy, namely that reason and deliberation, and not passion or will, can be the basis of political community. He defines "deep interrogation":

:"Deep interrogation" a bureaucratic phrase which takes the place of the simpler word "torture" and is worth of Orwell's ''1984'' is on a different level of immorality than hysterical sadism or the indiscriminate bomb of urban guerrillas. It is something organised with imagination and a knowledge of psychology, calculated and cold blooded ... [http://books.google.com/books?id=3s3ZGy0RAK4C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22deep+interrogation%22+-pynchon&source=bl&ots=sfcbvQr90m&sig=iRr8MpNtWD3Cax-7bqlAwyigsvE&hl=en&ei=JFfZSsr-IIL8sgPgsKGNBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22deep%20interrogation%22%20-pynchon&f=false] ([http://www.amazon.com/Constitutions-Crisis-Political-Violence-Rule/dp/0195057384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255758301&sr=1-1 Buy it...])

==Page 96==
'''Yeah, PIs should really stay away from drugs, all 'em alternate universes just make the job that much more complicated.''' 
Needless to say, the above quote by Fritz is pretty ironic. Only a few lines earlier they had been passing a roach back and forth. But the line itself provides a good set up for the remainder of Doc's visit with Fritz. "Alternate universes" are merely brought up in reference to drug trips, but what are stories other than alternate universes that squares and dopers alike enjoy visiting? The line between pop culture and reality is always getting blurred in ''Inherent Vice'', clearly seen here in Doc's attempt at using Sherlock Holmes as a real life example of a fellow detective doing drugs. '''"He's a made up character in a bunch of stories, Doc." "Wh- Naw. He's real..."''' 

This idea gets pushed even further as Doc and Fritz, already in the alternate universe of dope, head on down to Zucky's, but only after Fritz makes a reference to yet another pop culture entity, Cheech and Chong. Once they get there, there are even more folks focused on an alternate universe, in this case ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'' (see below.) The influence of pop culture, both in this scene and ''Inherent Vice'' in general, is ubiquitous. The next page has the two of them discussing pop culture directly, with Doc more or less breaking the fourth wall in his analysis of how detectives and cops are depicted, both then and now.

[[image:zuckys.jpg|right|150px|thumb|caption|Zucky's Delicatessen]]'''Zucky's''' 
Pronounced zoo'-keys, Zucky's was run by Zucky and Hy Altman, founders of the SOVA food pantries, and frequented by such celebrities as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - who would meet there for breakfast every morning before continuing on to the gym, back in the day. Closed since 1993, it was located at the corner of Wilshire and 5th Street, in Santa Monica. It was one of the few places open after 10pm in Santa Monica.

'''''Marcus Welby, M.D.''''' 
Hour long medical drama that aired on ABC from '69-'76. Took place in Santa Monica and ranked first in Nielsens for the year 1970. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRmhb7mhiB4 View the opening credits] where Zucky's sign appears on the left side at :08 in.

'''what Cheech and Chong might call matzo-ball jones?''' 
Punned reference to "Basketball Jones", song on Cheech and Chong "Los Cochinos" album with release date 1973.

==Page 97==
'''Philip Marlowe''' 
Raymond Chandler's famous detective, featured in Chandler's many novels set in LA, including ''The Big Sleep'' (1939; his first appearance), ''Farewell My Lovely'', and ''The Long Goodbye''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe] There are many important parallels between Pynchon's Doc and Chandler's Marlowe, especially his world-weariness, his fondness for certain drugs of choice, and a penchant for cracking wise and getting beaten up and worse. (John D. MacDonald's fictional detective Travis McGee is also an important predecessor; see below). Of all Chandler's fiction, ''Farewell My Lovely'' (1940), which many think is Chandler's best, may be most relevant for the plot and themes of ''Inherent Vice''. For instance, in that novel Marlowe stays in a hotel in Venice Beach before going out to Laird Brunette's offshore gambling boat, the ''Montecino''. ''Farewell My Lovely'' also has "rehab" centers that serve as a front for torture and murder; characters with hidden identities; an impossibly convoluted plot; and a literary style that features striking metaphors, similes, and literary allusions. Marlowe is, like Doc, a dark mixture of cynicism, doggedness, and indifference--yet his goodness and inherent virtues can't be killed. To trace the parallels with Chandler's Marlowe, though, is to see how fully Pynchon has transformed and deepened the generic conventions of 1930s and '40s detective fiction (and film noir inspired by it) even as he pays homage to these.

'''Sam Spade''' 
Dashiell Hammett's detective in ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and other crime fiction; in John Huston's famous film based on the novel, he's played by Humphrey Bogart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade]

'''Johnny Staccato''' 
''Johnny Staccato'' is a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. Title character Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes (1929-1989), is a jazz pianist/private detective. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Staccato]

'''Krazy Kat''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat ''Krazy Kat''] was a popular comic strip that ran in newspapers from 1913 to 1944. Ignatz and Offisa Pupp are characters.

'''Steve McGarrett''' 
Detective in the TV show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O ''Hawaii Five-0''], important to both [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_60 ''Vineland''] and ''Inherent Vice.''

'''"but nowadays it's all you see anymore is...fuckin cop shows"''' 
Compare with today's television being saturated with programs which typically feature forensics specialists who inexplicably have the authority to make arrests and conduct interrogations, and are still "just being regular guys, only tryin to do their job, folks, no more threat to nobody's freedom than some dad in a sitcom."

Doc's rant about too many cop shows on TV echoes [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_37#Page_418 Ernie Turnow's rant against TV cop shows on page 418 of ''Bleeding Edge'']. Both characters lament the disappearance on TV of great Private Investigators and the emergence of heroic cops. In ''Inherent Vice'', Doc sees it just beginning ("the tube is saturated with fuckin cop shows"). In ''Bleeding Edge'' Ernie is looking back to when Maxine and her sister were kids watching TV which would be the early 1970s when ''Inherent Vice'' takes place and he'd ground them if he caught them watching a "cop show" "What happened to private eyes, lovable criminals? lost in all that post-sixties propaganda."

'''"Why not get a houseboat up in the Sacramento Delta--smoke, drink, fish, fuck..."''' 
It's tough not to see this as a nod to Doc's brother shamus Travis McGee, the creation of Florida writer John D. MacDonald. McGee lives on a houseboat, taking his "retirement in installments," drinking, lounging on Florida beaches, meeting and inevitably helping beautiful women out of troubles that almost always involve a sinister land broker or two. Along the way Trav usually ends up pontificating about rapacious land developers, the increasingly artificial and isolated American lifestyle, and people's loss of connection with the natural world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee]

The above quote is followed by Doc's '''"Don't forget piss and moan."''' 
Their exchange bears a striking resemblance to dialogue from Woody Allen's 1970s romantic comedy ''Annie Hall''. The main love interest comments on the care free life of Californians, "It's wonderful. I mean, you know they just watch movies all day." To which Woody's neurotic hero quips "Yeah, and gradually get old and die." One can draw a respectable number of parallels between Pynchon and Allen: both have strong ties to New York, both tend to write highly paranoid characters, and both enjoy giving California a hard time. Hell, they were even born around the same couple years. Funnily enough, ''Annie Hall'''s protagonist seems to have the exact opposite opinion on dope as Doc.

==Page 98==
'''Sunrise was on the way''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative, and Easter Sunday.

:March 29 doesn't ''quite'' jibe with "It was late winter in Gordita" (line 5) or, on [[#Page_102|page 102]], "the wintertime smell of crude oil..." (line 11). Spring comes sometime between the 19th to the 23rd of March, so according to Pynchon here we're sometime before March 29, yes?

[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KLAX/1970/3/29/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Los+Angeles+International&req_state=CA&req_statename=California Here] is the weather for March 29--a pretty average day by L.A. standards.

'''[T]he engine sounds were not passing across the sky where they should have . . .''' 
An apparent allusion to the opening line of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. As a consequence of this, "everybody's dreams got disarranged," which also seems to be happening on ''GR's'' first page.

==Page 99==
'''two plastic skegs''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeg skeg] is a fin attached to rear of a surfboard.

'''Waimea''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea_Bay Waimea Bay], on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii, is one of the planet's premier big-wave surfing locations, with gigantic swells in winter. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHHqw_OniU Video.]

'''Maverick's''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Big wave] in Northern California. Trivia alert: apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried, but failed, to surf the wave. While no one was surfing this now famous wave until the mid-70s, it had been known about at least since 1961. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcioR3ElH60 Video.]

'''Todos Santos''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQtzxGEG6Y Video] of these big waves [http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/surfing/surf-photos.htm near Baja.]

'''riding goofyfoot''' 
This is a surfing/skateboarding term for someone who rides left-footed. So-called regular foot riders keep their left foot at the front of the board, but goofyfoot riders put their right foot at the front. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footedness here].

'''Doc, also up early''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''double-cross whites''' 
[http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetTerms/ByType.asp?intTypeID=9 Amphetamines].

==Page 100==
'''a surfer or two who'd found and ridden other breaks [...] unphotographed and unrecorded''' 
Even though Pynchon's reference to Mavericks would seem an anachronism, as no one other than a couple surfers had even tried Mavericks until Jeff Clark began riding the gigantic break in 1975, alone, until 1990 when he convinced some other surfers to check it out, this description would seem to fit Jeff Clark perfectly, discovering and surfing, alone, some of the largest waves on the planet. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Clark Jeff Clark Wikipedia entry...] Pynchon himself, as we all know, likes to remain unphotographed.

==Page 101==
'''Surfaris laugh . . . "Hooo-oo-oo-oo---Wipeout!"''' 
[[image:surfaris-dot-decca.jpg|200px|right|thumb|caption|"Wipe Out" - Decca & Dot]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(song) "Wipe Out"] was a 1962 hit originally performed by the Surfaris. You can hear the song, including the insane laugh (provided by their producer/manager Dale Smallin) and a 2x4 being cracked in half, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofdWQG346k here].

The original Dot label version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5WGWX4MPg "Wipe Out"] has the laughter on it that Zigzag and Flaco are arguing about, not the later, and less well-known, Decca re-recording. The Surfaris and "Wipe Out" have a surprisingly tangled history:

:Dot records was the national distributer of "Wipe Out" and the label quickly wanted to capitalize on its success, but rather than use the Surfaris they had The Challengers do covers of other intrumental hits. The only songs that are from the Surfaris on the "Wipe Out" LP are the 2 sides of that single. After the single took off they were quickly brought in to tape an album. It was in the can 12 hours later. Only a week went by before it was out in the record bins. This was a big surprise to the Surfaris. They were even more surprised realize that aside from "Wipe Out" and "Surfer Joe" the remainder of the LP was not them! When they confronted their manager (The Laugh guy in the "Wipe Out" intro), he told them the producers had to add a few overdubs and to listen closer. The more they listened the more they doubted this story. Finally the manager admitted that union musicians had been brought in to do the songs they had recorded. When they realized they had no legal binding contract from Dot records they went off in a huff to Decca records and recorded their ''real'' debut LP, "The Surfaris Play". They were required to re-record "Wipe Out" as Dot did have the rights to it! [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1203]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris Wikipedia entry for the Surfaris...]

==Page 102==
[[image:Barney-Fife_bw.jpg|right|caption|thumb|125px|Barney Fife / Don Knotts]]<div id="barney">'''barney quota'''</div>
"Barney" in this context refers to the character Barney Fife from [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm ''The Andy Griffith Show''] an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1960-1968. Fife was an incompetent blowhard who was overly zealous as a police officer and was played by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Knotts Don Knotts] (1924-2006) [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm More on the Barney Fife character...]

'''in the slow seep of dawn''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikantaza shikantaza]''' 
A Zen Buddhist discipline which recommends "just sitting".

==Page 103==
'''Mira Costa''' 
A [http://www.mchs.manhattan.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=2 high school] in Manhattan Beach, CA.

==Page 104==
'''laterite''' 
Soil layer rich in iron oxide, formed in tropical and sub-tropical regions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia]

==Page 105==
'''"Earth has an immune system, too...like the oil industry"''' 
Recalls Kurt Vonnegut's quote, "We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should." From [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-13-2005/kurt-vonnegut his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart].

'''Atlantis and Lemuria''' 
The mythical continent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent) Lemuria] is mentioned throughout ''Inherent Vice''. Shasta Fay Hepworth's namesake, Mt. Shasta in Northern California is [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm believed by some] to be the home of Lemuria's survivors.

'''Owsley''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley Owsley Stanley.] Famous large-scale supplier of LSD.

==Page 106==
'''Doc's name then was something like Xqq''' 
Doc's name, and the dual-sun planet on which he resided, is reminiscent of Italo Calvino's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics ''Cosmicomics''] (1965) which takes place billions of years ago before Earth and on an early Earth, and has characters with names such as Qfwfq and (k)yK and Lll. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. From the dustjacket blurb:

:The narrator, Qfwfq, spends his childhood in the soundless, timeless void; among the incandescent colors of stellar explosions, he plays with hydrogen atoms like marbles and, sitting astride a galaxy, chases his friend Pfwfp around the firmament. Or, as an adolescent on the new Earth, he has his first shy love affairs with Ayl, Lll, and Mrs. Vhd Vhd...

'''osmium''' 
A chemical element that has the symbol Os and atomic number 76. Osmium is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, and is the densest natural element.

'''you'll be the same size and density''' 
This discussion of Doc's "density" is reminiscent of Mondaugen's Law in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509 ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "Personal density [...] is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth":

:"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your ''now''. It is the familiar "delta t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even as Slothrop now what you're doing ''here'', at the base of this colossal curved embankment... [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509]

Well, Doc, transported to Earth 3 billion years in the future, is certainly dwelling the future and indeed his density is very high. However, the Doc we've come to know here more closely seems to fit the description of someone with a very narrow "sense of Now."

==Page 108==
'''blotter''' 
LSD was frequently distributed in the form of drops of the active chemical dried onto sheets of blotter paper. A single dose would normally be a square of blotter paper approximately 1 cm x 1 cm, holding one drop.

Even today, "blotter" refers to a transcript of the day's events in police vernacular. So this appears to be another instance of Pynchon ... umm ... doping his text with the language of 1940's noir novels.

'''Tiny Tim''' 
Tiny Tim was the stage name for novelty performer Herbert Khaury, best known for his rendition of "Tip-toe Through The Tulips With Me" (1968) and his trademark falsetto vocals and ukelele accompaniment.

The song "The Ice Caps Are Melting" is actually called "The Other Side", and can be found on Tiny's first Reprise album "God Bless Tiny Tim".

The refrain's lyrics include these lines:
:The ice caps are melting, 
:The tide is rushing in. 
:All the world is drowning, 
:To wash away the sin. 

Today's readers might be reminded of global warming when they read this, but in 1970, that would not have been on anyone's mind. Rather, the lyrics should probably be taken at face value - water-related image triggers for part of Doc's acid trip.

==Page 110==
'''They were outside on the beach, it was nighttime''' 
Night, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

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==Page 89==
'''Doc called Sancho next morning''' 
Morning, Saturday, March 28, 1970, the fifth day of the narrative.

'''Ginger . . . Skipper . . . Gilligan . . . Thurston Howell III . . . Lovey''' 
All are characters from the 1960s TV show [[G#gilligan|''Gilligan's Island'']]. The "code" would presumably be whether the aspiring actress (Ginger/Shasta) would end up with Gilligan/Doc, or whether she would end up with the rich man (Thurston Howell III/Mickey Wolfmann), who might or might not ever divorce his wife (Lovey/Sloane Wolfmann).

==Page 90==
'''Varathaned hatch-covers''' 
[http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGBrand.asp?bid=12 Varathane] is a brand of wood stains and polyurethane sealants.

'''Charlotte Amalie''' 
The largest city and capital of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Amalie,_United_States_Virgin_Islands US Virgina Islands].

'''Like new debt... from institutions in places like South Dakota that you send away for by filling out the back of match cover''' 
Sauncho's quote here echoes almost exactly Zoyd's thoughts in ''Vineland'' in regard to Isaiah Two Four's business proposition: "expecting some address in a distant state, obtained from a matchbook cover." (p. 19, ''Vineland'')

==Page 91==
'''Thomas Arnould''' 
An error. Should be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Arnould "Joseph Arnould"], who wrote ''Law of Marine Insurance'' (1848).

'''Theophilus Parsons''' 
There were two men ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons father] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons_(professor) son]) named Theopilus Parsons in the nineteenth century. This reference is to the younger one, who published A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and General Average in 1868.

==Page 92==
'''Your stomach isn't it.''' 
A listless way of saying "It's your stomach, so feel free to order whatever horrible food you desire."

'''L'il buddy''' 
Another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. "L'il buddy" was the captain's nickname for Gilligan. See [[#Page 89|page 89]] for another instance of Doc being linked to Gilligan.

Also, Hector calls Zoyd this in ''Vineland'', see p. 26. The contraction is spelled li'l in ''Vineland'' but l'il in ''Inherent Vice''. The former is technically correct, since the elision (the "tt") is after the "i" rather than before it.

Also, this phrase appears in ''Against the Day'', [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_195 pg. 195].

'''Eel Trovatore''' 
A perhaps obvious pun on Il Trovatore, the Verdi opera.

'''head for the toilet''' 
Another pun: the toilet on a boat is called the "head".

'''a tremendous nitroglycerin explosion in Halifax Harbor'''

The largest accidental explosion in history, December 6, 1917. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion]

Note that the 1917 Halifax explosion was not caused by nitroglycerin, but by TNT and other wartime explosives.

'''Burke Stodger''' 
This name is likely derived from a 1910 ''noir''-ish murder-mystery novel ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk. Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop, are two main characters. [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=paternoster+ruby+charles+edmonds+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkqjKBGj4&sig=KGhSLPxiRPQqvVPLhOQ5WNEzSE8&hl=en&ei=mfBrStfrF4uAsgPltqmWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Google Books] Perhaps Pynchon's slyly recycling here some unused stuff from his vast research for ''Against the Day''? A excerpt from Walk's novel:

:"Nasty case," Stodger was imparting, in queer staccato sentences. "Shouldn't have much difficulty, though; responsibility lies between two men. Here all last night. Nobody else. Callahan and O'Brien holdin' 'em. One 's Page's private secretary; fellow named Burke Alexander Stilwell Burke. Peach of a monicker, ain't it? Has all three sections on his cards.

:[...]

:Suddenly she snuggled closer and clasped her hands tightly upon my shoulder. Her hair teased my cheek, and the delicate perfume of it made me light-headed. Twisting her pretty head sideways, she flashed an arch look at me from under her lashes, then glanced quickly away again. Blue eyes and long dark lashes are a potently disturbing combination.

:"Well," she sighed, "the Page case may have cost you a fortune, but it gave you ''me''. And ''I'' for one am very content and happy, Mr. Swift."

==Page 93==
'''a three-hour tour''' 
Yet another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. This is a quote from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycmb7_LvsA theme song].

==Page 94==
'''Hoover Library at Stanford'''

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library--not J. Edgar.

==Page 95==
'''"deep interrogation"''' 
Well, it ''could'' be a reference to throwing folks into the deep blue sea. However, in the 1970s, long before Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and "enhanced interrogation," Britain utilized “deep interrogation” techniques in an effort to defeat the Irish Republican Army. ''Constitutions in Crisis: Political Violence and the Rule of Law'' by John E. Finn (Oxford University Press, 1990) examines how the efforts of two western liberal democracies, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, to cope with domestic terrorism threatens their constitutional integrity. Finn argues first that widespread political violence challenges the presuppositions of constitutional authority in any liberal democracy, namely that reason and deliberation, and not passion or will, can be the basis of political community. He defines "deep interrogation":

:"Deep interrogation" a bureaucratic phrase which takes the place of the simpler word "torture" and is worth of Orwell's ''1984'' is on a different level of immorality than hysterical sadism or the indiscriminate bomb of urban guerrillas. It is something organised with imagination and a knowledge of psychology, calculated and cold blooded ... [http://books.google.com/books?id=3s3ZGy0RAK4C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22deep+interrogation%22+-pynchon&source=bl&ots=sfcbvQr90m&sig=iRr8MpNtWD3Cax-7bqlAwyigsvE&hl=en&ei=JFfZSsr-IIL8sgPgsKGNBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22deep%20interrogation%22%20-pynchon&f=false] ([http://www.amazon.com/Constitutions-Crisis-Political-Violence-Rule/dp/0195057384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255758301&sr=1-1 Buy it...])

==Page 96==
'''Yeah, PIs should really stay away from drugs, all 'em alternate universes just make the job that much more complicated.''' 
Needless to say, the above quote by Fritz is pretty ironic. Only a few lines earlier they had been passing a roach back and forth. But the line itself provides a good set up for the remainder of Doc's visit with Fritz. "Alternate universes" are merely brought up in reference to drug trips, but what are stories other than alternate universes that squares and dopers alike enjoy visiting? The line between pop culture and reality is always getting blurred in ''Inherent Vice'', clearly seen here in Doc's attempt at using Sherlock Holmes as a real life example of a fellow detective doing drugs. '''"He's a made up character in a bunch of stories, Doc." "Wh- Naw. He's real..."''' 

This idea gets pushed even further as Doc and Fritz, already in the alternate universe of dope, head on down to Zucky's, but only after Fritz makes a reference to yet another pop culture entity, Cheech and Chong. Once they get there, there are even more folks focused on an alternate universe, in this case ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'' (see below.) The influence of pop culture, both in this scene and ''Inherent Vice'' in general, is ubiquitous. The next page has the two of them discussing pop culture directly, with Doc more or less breaking the fourth wall in his analysis of how detectives and cops are depicted, both then and now.

[[image:zuckys.jpg|right|150px|thumb|caption|Zucky's Delicatessen]]'''Zucky's''' 
Pronounced zoo'-keys, Zucky's was run by Zucky and Hy Altman, founders of the SOVA food pantries, and frequented by such celebrities as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - who would meet there for breakfast every morning before continuing on to the gym, back in the day. Closed since 1993, it was located at the corner of Wilshire and 5th Street, in Santa Monica. It was one of the few places open after 10pm in Santa Monica.

'''''Marcus Welby, M.D.''''' 
Hour long medical drama that aired on ABC from '69-'76. Took place in Santa Monica and ranked first in Nielsens for the year 1970. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRmhb7mhiB4 View the opening credits] where Zucky's sign appears on the left side at :08 in.

'''what Cheech and Chong might call matzo-ball jones?''' 
Punned reference to "Basketball Jones", song on Cheech and Chong "Los Cochinos" album with release date 1973.

==Page 97==
'''Philip Marlowe''' 
Raymond Chandler's famous detective, featured in Chandler's many novels set in LA, including ''The Big Sleep'' (1939; his first appearance), ''Farewell My Lovely'', and ''The Long Goodbye''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe] There are many important parallels between Pynchon's Doc and Chandler's Marlowe, especially his world-weariness, his fondness for certain drugs of choice, and a penchant for cracking wise and getting beaten up and worse. (John D. MacDonald's fictional detective Travis McGee is also an important predecessor; see below). Of all Chandler's fiction, ''Farewell My Lovely'' (1940), which many think is Chandler's best, may be most relevant for the plot and themes of ''Inherent Vice''. For instance, in that novel Marlowe stays in a hotel in Venice Beach before going out to Laird Brunette's offshore gambling boat, the ''Montecino''. ''Farewell My Lovely'' also has "rehab" centers that serve as a front for torture and murder; characters with hidden identities; an impossibly convoluted plot; and a literary style that features striking metaphors, similes, and literary allusions. Marlowe is, like Doc, a dark mixture of cynicism, doggedness, and indifference--yet his goodness and inherent virtues can't be killed. To trace the parallels with Chandler's Marlowe, though, is to see how fully Pynchon has transformed and deepened the generic conventions of 1930s and '40s detective fiction (and film noir inspired by it) even as he pays homage to these.

'''Sam Spade''' 
Dashiell Hammett's detective in ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and other crime fiction; in John Huston's famous film based on the novel, he's played by Humphrey Bogart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade]

'''Johnny Staccato''' 
''Johnny Staccato'' is a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. Title character Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes (1929-1989), is a jazz pianist/private detective. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Staccato]

'''Krazy Kat''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat ''Krazy Kat''] was a popular comic strip that ran in newspapers from 1913 to 1944. Ignatz and Offisa Pupp are characters.

'''Steve McGarrett''' 
Detective in the TV show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O ''Hawaii Five-0''], important to both [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_60 ''Vineland''] and ''Inherent Vice.''

'''"but nowadays it's all you see anymore is...fuckin cop shows"''' 
Compare with today's television being saturated with programs which typically feature forensics specialists who inexplicably have the authority to make arrests and conduct interrogations, and are still "just being regular guys, only tryin to do their job, folks, no more threat to nobody's freedom than some dad in a sitcom."

Doc's rant about too many cop shows on TV echoes [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_37#Page_418 Ernie Turnow's rant against TV cop shows on page 418 of ''Bleeding Edge'']. Both characters lament the disappearance on TV of great Private Investigators and the emergence of heroic cops. In ''Inherent Vice'', Doc sees it just beginning ("the tube is saturated with fuckin cop shows"). In ''Bleeding Edge'' Ernie is looking back to when Maxine and her sister were kids watching TV which would be the early 1970s when ''Inherent Vice'' takes place and he'd ground them if he caught them watching a "cop show" "What happened to private eyes, lovable criminals? lost in all that post-sixties propaganda."

'''"Why not get a houseboat up in the Sacramento Delta--smoke, drink, fish, fuck..."''' 
It's tough not to see this as a nod to Doc's brother shamus Travis McGee, the creation of Florida writer John D. MacDonald. McGee lives on a houseboat, taking his "retirement in installments," drinking, lounging on Florida beaches, meeting and inevitably helping beautiful women out of troubles that almost always involve a sinister land broker or two. Along the way Trav usually ends up pontificating about rapacious land developers, the increasingly artificial and isolated American lifestyle, and people's loss of connection with the natural world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee]

The above quote is followed by Doc's '''"Don't forget piss and moan."''' 
Their exchange bears a striking resemblance to dialogue from Woody Allen's 1970s romantic comedy ''Annie Hall''. The main love interest comments on the care free life of Californians, "It's wonderful. I mean, you know they just watch movies all day." To which Woody's neurotic hero quips "Yeah, and gradually get old and die." One can draw a respectable number of parallels between Pynchon and Allen: both have strong ties to New York, both tend to write highly paranoid characters, and both enjoy giving California a hard time. Hell, they were even born around the same couple years. Funnily enough, ''Annie Hall'''s protagonist seems to have the exact opposite opinion on dope as Doc.

==Page 98==
'''Sunrise was on the way''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative, and Easter Sunday.

:March 29 doesn't ''quite'' jibe with "It was late winter in Gordita" (line 5) or, on [[#Page_102|page 102]], "the wintertime smell of crude oil..." (line 11). Spring comes sometime between the 19th to the 23rd of March, so according to Pynchon here we're sometime before March 29, yes?

[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KLAX/1970/3/29/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Los+Angeles+International&req_state=CA&req_statename=California Here] is the weather for March 29--a pretty average day by L.A. standards.

'''[T]he engine sounds were not passing across the sky where they should have . . .''' 
An apparent allusion to the opening line of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. As a consequence of this, "everybody's dreams got disarranged," which also seems to be happening on ''GR's'' first page.

==Page 99==
'''two plastic skegs''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeg skeg] is a fin attached to rear of a surfboard.

'''Waimea''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea_Bay Waimea Bay], on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii, is one of the planet's premier big-wave surfing locations, with gigantic swells in winter. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHHqw_OniU Video.]

'''Maverick's''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Big wave] in Northern California. Trivia alert: apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried, but failed, to surf the wave. While no one was surfing this now famous wave until the mid-70s, it had been known about at least since 1961. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcioR3ElH60 Video.]

'''Todos Santos''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQtzxGEG6Y Video] of these big waves [http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/surfing/surf-photos.htm near Baja.]

'''riding goofyfoot''' 
This is a surfing/skateboarding term for someone who rides left-footed. So-called regular foot riders keep their left foot at the front of the board, but goofyfoot riders put their right foot at the front. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footedness here].

'''Doc, also up early''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''double-cross whites''' 
[http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetTerms/ByType.asp?intTypeID=9 Amphetamines].

==Page 100==
'''a surfer or two who'd found and ridden other breaks [...] unphotographed and unrecorded''' 
Even though Pynchon's reference to Mavericks would seem an anachronism, as no one other than a couple surfers had even tried Mavericks until Jeff Clark began riding the gigantic break in 1975, alone, until 1990 when he convinced some other surfers to check it out, this description would seem to fit Jeff Clark perfectly, discovering and surfing, alone, some of the largest waves on the planet. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Clark Jeff Clark Wikipedia entry...] Pynchon himself, as we all know, likes to remain unphotographed.

==Page 101==
'''Surfaris laugh . . . "Hooo-oo-oo-oo---Wipeout!"''' 
[[image:surfaris-dot-decca.jpg|200px|right|thumb|caption|"Wipe Out" - Decca & Dot]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(song) "Wipe Out"] was a 1962 hit originally performed by the Surfaris. You can hear the song, including the insane laugh (provided by their producer/manager Dale Smallin) and a 2x4 being cracked in half, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofdWQG346k here].

The original Dot label version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5WGWX4MPg "Wipe Out"] has the laughter on it that Zigzag and Flaco are arguing about, not the later, and less well-known, Decca re-recording. The Surfaris and "Wipe Out" have a surprisingly tangled history:

:Dot records was the national distributer of "Wipe Out" and the label quickly wanted to capitalize on its success, but rather than use the Surfaris they had The Challengers do covers of other intrumental hits. The only songs that are from the Surfaris on the "Wipe Out" LP are the 2 sides of that single. After the single took off they were quickly brought in to tape an album. It was in the can 12 hours later. Only a week went by before it was out in the record bins. This was a big surprise to the Surfaris. They were even more surprised realize that aside from "Wipe Out" and "Surfer Joe" the remainder of the LP was not them! When they confronted their manager (The Laugh guy in the "Wipe Out" intro), he told them the producers had to add a few overdubs and to listen closer. The more they listened the more they doubted this story. Finally the manager admitted that union musicians had been brought in to do the songs they had recorded. When they realized they had no legal binding contract from Dot records they went off in a huff to Decca records and recorded their ''real'' debut LP, "The Surfaris Play". They were required to re-record "Wipe Out" as Dot did have the rights to it! [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1203]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris Wikipedia entry for the Surfaris...]

==Page 102==
[[image:Barney-Fife_bw.jpg|right|caption|thumb|125px|Barney Fife / Don Knotts]]<div id="barney">'''barney quota'''</div>
"Barney" in this context refers to the character Barney Fife from [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm ''The Andy Griffith Show''] an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1960-1968. Fife was an incompetent blowhard who was overly zealous as a police officer and was played by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Knotts Don Knotts] (1924-2006) [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm More on the Barney Fife character...]

'''in the slow seep of dawn''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikantaza shikantaza]''' 
A Zen Buddhist discipline which recommends "just sitting".

==Page 103==
'''Mira Costa''' 
A [http://www.mchs.manhattan.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=2 high school] in Manhattan Beach, CA.

==Page 104==
'''laterite''' 
Soil layer rich in iron oxide, formed in tropical and sub-tropical regions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia]

==Page 105==
'''"Earth has an immune system, too...like the oil industry"''' 
Recalls Kurt Vonnegut's quote, "We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should." From [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-13-2005/kurt-vonnegut his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart].

'''Atlantis and Lemuria''' 
The mythical continent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent) Lemuria] is mentioned throughout ''Inherent Vice''. Shasta Fay Hepworth's namesake, Mt. Shasta in Northern California is [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm believed by some] to be the home of Lemuria's survivors.

'''Owsley''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley Owsley Stanley.] Famous large-scale supplier of LSD.

==Page 106==
'''Doc's name then was something like Xqq''' 
Doc's name, and the dual-sun planet on which he resided, is reminiscent of Italo Calvino's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics ''Cosmicomics''] (1965) which takes place billions of years ago before Earth and on an early Earth, and has characters with names such as Qfwfq and (k)yK and Lll. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. From the dustjacket blurb:

:The narrator, Qfwfq, spends his childhood in the soundless, timeless void; among the incandescent colors of stellar explosions, he plays with hydrogen atoms like marbles and, sitting astride a galaxy, chases his friend Pfwfp around the firmament. Or, as an adolescent on the new Earth, he has his first shy love affairs with Ayl, Lll, and Mrs. Vhd Vhd...

'''osmium''' 
A chemical element that has the symbol Os and atomic number 76. Osmium is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, and is the densest natural element.

'''you'll be the same size and density''' 
This discussion of Doc's "density" is reminiscent of Mondaugen's Law in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509 ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "Personal density [...] is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth":

:"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your ''now''. It is the familiar "delta t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even as Slothrop now what you're doing ''here'', at the base of this colossal curved embankment... [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509]

Well, Doc, transported to Earth 3 billion years in the future, is certainly dwelling the future and indeed his density is very high. However, the Doc we've come to know here more closely seems to fit the description of someone with a very narrow "sense of Now."

==Page 108==
'''blotter''' 
LSD was frequently distributed in the form of drops of the active chemical dried onto sheets of blotter paper. A single dose would normally be a square of blotter paper approximately 1 cm x 1 cm, holding one drop.

Even today, "blotter" refers to a transcript of the day's events in police vernacular. So this appears to be another instance of Pynchon ... umm ... doping his text with the language of 1940's noir novels.

'''Tiny Tim''' 
Tiny Tim was the stage name for novelty performer Herbert Khaury, best known for his rendition of "Tip-toe Through The Tulips With Me" (1968) and his trademark falsetto vocals and ukelele accompaniment.

The song "The Ice Caps Are Melting" is actually called "The Other Side", and can be found on Tiny's first Reprise album "God Bless Tiny Tim".

The refrain's lyrics include these lines:
:The ice caps are melting, 
:The tide is rushing in. 
:All the world is drowning, 
:To wash away the sin. 

Today's readers might be reminded of global warming when they read this, but in 1970, that would not have been on anyone's mind. Rather, the lyrics should probably be taken at face value - water-related image triggers for part of Doc's acid trip.

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Night, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

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==Page 89==
'''Doc called Sancho next morning''' 
Morning, Saturday, March 28, 1970, the fifth day of the narrative.

'''Ginger . . . Skipper . . . Gilligan . . . Thurston Howell III . . . Lovey''' 
All are characters from the 1960s TV show [[G#gilligan|''Gilligan's Island'']]. The "code" would presumably be whether the aspiring actress (Ginger/Shasta) would end up with Gilligan/Doc, or whether she would end up with the rich man (Thurston Howell III/Mickey Wolfmann), who might or might not ever divorce his wife (Lovey/Sloane Wolfmann).

==Page 90==
'''Varathaned hatch-covers''' 
[http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGBrand.asp?bid=12 Varathane] is a brand of wood stains and polyurethane sealants.

'''Charlotte Amalie''' 
The largest city and capital of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Amalie,_United_States_Virgin_Islands US Virgina Islands].

'''Like new debt... from institutions in places like South Dakota that you send away for by filling out the back of match cover''' 
Sauncho's quote here echoes almost exactly Zoyd's thoughts in ''Vineland'' in regard to Isaiah Two Four's business proposition: "expecting some address in a distant state, obtained from a matchbook cover." (p. 19, ''Vineland'')

==Page 91==
'''Thomas Arnould''' 
An error. Should be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Arnould "Joseph Arnould"], who wrote ''Law of Marine Insurance'' (1848).

'''Theophilus Parsons''' 
There were two men ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons father] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons_(professor) son]) named Theopilus Parsons in the nineteenth century. This reference is to the younger one, who published A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and General Average in 1868.

==Page 92==
'''Your stomach isn't it.''' 
A listless way of saying "It's your stomach, so feel free to order whatever horrible food you desire."

'''L'il buddy''' 
Another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. "L'il buddy" was the captain's nickname for Gilligan. See [[#Page 89|page 89]] for another instance of Doc being linked to Gilligan.

Also, Hector calls Zoyd this in ''Vineland'', see p. 26. The contraction is spelled li'l in ''Vineland'' but l'il in ''Inherent Vice''. The former is technically correct, since the elision (the "tt") is after the "i" rather than before it.

Also, this phrase appears in ''Against the Day'', [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_195 pg. 195].

'''Eel Trovatore''' 
A perhaps obvious pun on Il Trovatore, the Verdi opera.

'''head for the toilet''' 
Another pun: the toilet on a boat is called the "head".

'''a tremendous nitroglycerin explosion in Halifax Harbor'''

The largest accidental explosion in history, December 6, 1917. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion]

Note that the 1917 Halifax explosion was not caused by nitroglycerin, but by TNT and other wartime explosives.

'''Burke Stodger''' 
This name is likely derived from a 1910 ''noir''-ish murder-mystery novel ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk. Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop, are two main characters. [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=paternoster+ruby+charles+edmonds+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkqjKBGj4&sig=KGhSLPxiRPQqvVPLhOQ5WNEzSE8&hl=en&ei=mfBrStfrF4uAsgPltqmWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Google Books] Perhaps Pynchon's slyly recycling here some unused stuff from his vast research for ''Against the Day''? A excerpt from Walk's novel:

:"Nasty case," Stodger was imparting, in queer staccato sentences. "Shouldn't have much difficulty, though; responsibility lies between two men. Here all last night. Nobody else. Callahan and O'Brien holdin' 'em. One 's Page's private secretary; fellow named Burke Alexander Stilwell Burke. Peach of a monicker, ain't it? Has all three sections on his cards.

:[...]

:Suddenly she snuggled closer and clasped her hands tightly upon my shoulder. Her hair teased my cheek, and the delicate perfume of it made me light-headed. Twisting her pretty head sideways, she flashed an arch look at me from under her lashes, then glanced quickly away again. Blue eyes and long dark lashes are a potently disturbing combination.

:"Well," she sighed, "the Page case may have cost you a fortune, but it gave you ''me''. And ''I'' for one am very content and happy, Mr. Swift."

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'''a three-hour tour''' 
Yet another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. This is a quote from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycmb7_LvsA theme song].

==Page 94==
'''Hoover Library at Stanford'''

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library--not J. Edgar.

==Page 95==
'''"deep interrogation"''' 
Well, it ''could'' be a reference to throwing folks into the deep blue sea. However, in the 1970s, long before Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and "enhanced interrogation," Britain utilized “deep interrogation” techniques in an effort to defeat the Irish Republican Army. ''Constitutions in Crisis: Political Violence and the Rule of Law'' by John E. Finn (Oxford University Press, 1990) examines how the efforts of two western liberal democracies, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, to cope with domestic terrorism threatens their constitutional integrity. Finn argues first that widespread political violence challenges the presuppositions of constitutional authority in any liberal democracy, namely that reason and deliberation, and not passion or will, can be the basis of political community. He defines "deep interrogation":

:"Deep interrogation" a bureaucratic phrase which takes the place of the simpler word "torture" and is worth of Orwell's ''1984'' is on a different level of immorality than hysterical sadism or the indiscriminate bomb of urban guerrillas. It is something organised with imagination and a knowledge of psychology, calculated and cold blooded ... [http://books.google.com/books?id=3s3ZGy0RAK4C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22deep+interrogation%22+-pynchon&source=bl&ots=sfcbvQr90m&sig=iRr8MpNtWD3Cax-7bqlAwyigsvE&hl=en&ei=JFfZSsr-IIL8sgPgsKGNBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22deep%20interrogation%22%20-pynchon&f=false] ([http://www.amazon.com/Constitutions-Crisis-Political-Violence-Rule/dp/0195057384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255758301&sr=1-1 Buy it...])

==Page 96==
[[image:zuckys.jpg|right|150px|thumb|caption|Zucky's Delicatessen]]'''Zucky's''' 
Pronounced zoo'-keys, Zucky's was run by Zucky and Hy Altman, founders of the SOVA food pantries, and frequented by such celebrities as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - who would meet there for breakfast every morning before continuing on to the gym, back in the day. Closed since 1993, it was located at the corner of Wilshire and 5th Street, in Santa Monica. It was one of the few places open after 10pm in Santa Monica.

'''''Marcus Welby, M.D.''''' 
Hour long medical drama that aired on ABC from '69-'76. Took place in Santa Monica and ranked first in Nielsens for the year 1970. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRmhb7mhiB4 View the opening credits] where Zucky's sign appears on the left side at :08 in.

'''what Cheech and Chong might call matzo-ball jones?''' 
Punned reference to "Basketball Jones", song on Cheech and Chong "Los Cochinos" album with release date 1973.

==Page 97==
'''Philip Marlowe''' 
Raymond Chandler's famous detective, featured in Chandler's many novels set in LA, including ''The Big Sleep'' (1939; his first appearance), ''Farewell My Lovely'', and ''The Long Goodbye''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe] There are many important parallels between Pynchon's Doc and Chandler's Marlowe, especially his world-weariness, his fondness for certain drugs of choice, and a penchant for cracking wise and getting beaten up and worse. (John D. MacDonald's fictional detective Travis McGee is also an important predecessor; see below). Of all Chandler's fiction, ''Farewell My Lovely'' (1940), which many think is Chandler's best, may be most relevant for the plot and themes of ''Inherent Vice''. For instance, in that novel Marlowe stays in a hotel in Venice Beach before going out to Laird Brunette's offshore gambling boat, the ''Montecino''. ''Farewell My Lovely'' also has "rehab" centers that serve as a front for torture and murder; characters with hidden identities; an impossibly convoluted plot; and a literary style that features striking metaphors, similes, and literary allusions. Marlowe is, like Doc, a dark mixture of cynicism, doggedness, and indifference--yet his goodness and inherent virtues can't be killed. To trace the parallels with Chandler's Marlowe, though, is to see how fully Pynchon has transformed and deepened the generic conventions of 1930s and '40s detective fiction (and film noir inspired by it) even as he pays homage to these.

'''Sam Spade''' 
Dashiell Hammett's detective in ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and other crime fiction; in John Huston's famous film based on the novel, he's played by Humphrey Bogart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade]

'''Johnny Staccato''' 
''Johnny Staccato'' is a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. Title character Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes (1929-1989), is a jazz pianist/private detective. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Staccato]

'''Krazy Kat''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat ''Krazy Kat''] was a popular comic strip that ran in newspapers from 1913 to 1944. Ignatz and Offisa Pupp are characters.

'''Steve McGarrett''' 
Detective in the TV show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O ''Hawaii Five-0''], important to both [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_60 ''Vineland''] and ''Inherent Vice.''

'''"but nowadays it's all you see anymore is...fuckin cop shows"''' 
Compare with today's television being saturated with programs which typically feature forensics specialists who inexplicably have the authority to make arrests and conduct interrogations, and are still "just being regular guys, only tryin to do their job, folks, no more threat to nobody's freedom than some dad in a sitcom."

Doc's rant about too many cop shows on TV echoes [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_37#Page_418 Ernie Turnow's rant against TV cop shows on page 418 of ''Bleeding Edge'']. Both characters lament the disappearance on TV of great Private Investigators and the emergence of heroic cops. In ''Inherent Vice'', Doc sees it just beginning ("the tube is saturated with fuckin cop shows"). In ''Bleeding Edge'' Ernie is looking back to when Maxine and her sister were kids watching TV which would be the early 1970s when ''Inherent Vice'' takes place and he'd ground them if he caught them watching a "cop show" "What happened to private eyes, lovable criminals? lost in all that post-sixties propaganda."

'''"Why not get a houseboat up in the Sacramento Delta--smoke, drink, fish, fuck..."''' 
It's tough not to see this as a nod to Doc's brother shamus Travis McGee, the creation of Florida writer John D. MacDonald. McGee lives on a houseboat, taking his "retirement in installments," drinking, lounging on Florida beaches, meeting and inevitably helping beautiful women out of troubles that almost always involve a sinister land broker or two. Along the way Trav usually ends up pontificating about rapacious land developers, the increasingly artificial and isolated American lifestyle, and people's loss of connection with the natural world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee]

The above quote is followed by Doc's '''"Don't forget piss and moan."''' 
Their exchange bears a striking resemblance to dialogue from Woody Allen's 1970s romantic comedy ''Annie Hall''. The main love interest comments on the care free life of Californians, "It's wonderful. I mean, you know they just watch movies all day." To which Woody's neurotic hero quips "Yeah, and gradually get old and die." One can draw a respectable number of parallels between Pynchon and Allen: both have strong ties to New York, both tend to write highly paranoid characters, and both enjoy giving California a hard time. Hell, they were even born around the same couple years. Funnily enough, ''Annie Hall'''s protagonist seems to have the exact opposite opinion on dope as Doc.

==Page 98==
'''Sunrise was on the way''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative, and Easter Sunday.

:March 29 doesn't ''quite'' jibe with "It was late winter in Gordita" (line 5) or, on [[#Page_102|page 102]], "the wintertime smell of crude oil..." (line 11). Spring comes sometime between the 19th to the 23rd of March, so according to Pynchon here we're sometime before March 29, yes?

[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KLAX/1970/3/29/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Los+Angeles+International&req_state=CA&req_statename=California Here] is the weather for March 29--a pretty average day by L.A. standards.

'''[T]he engine sounds were not passing across the sky where they should have . . .''' 
An apparent allusion to the opening line of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. As a consequence of this, "everybody's dreams got disarranged," which also seems to be happening on ''GR's'' first page.

==Page 99==
'''two plastic skegs''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeg skeg] is a fin attached to rear of a surfboard.

'''Waimea''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea_Bay Waimea Bay], on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii, is one of the planet's premier big-wave surfing locations, with gigantic swells in winter. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHHqw_OniU Video.]

'''Maverick's''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Big wave] in Northern California. Trivia alert: apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried, but failed, to surf the wave. While no one was surfing this now famous wave until the mid-70s, it had been known about at least since 1961. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcioR3ElH60 Video.]

'''Todos Santos''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQtzxGEG6Y Video] of these big waves [http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/surfing/surf-photos.htm near Baja.]

'''riding goofyfoot''' 
This is a surfing/skateboarding term for someone who rides left-footed. So-called regular foot riders keep their left foot at the front of the board, but goofyfoot riders put their right foot at the front. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footedness here].

'''Doc, also up early''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''double-cross whites''' 
[http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetTerms/ByType.asp?intTypeID=9 Amphetamines].

==Page 100==
'''a surfer or two who'd found and ridden other breaks [...] unphotographed and unrecorded''' 
Even though Pynchon's reference to Mavericks would seem an anachronism, as no one other than a couple surfers had even tried Mavericks until Jeff Clark began riding the gigantic break in 1975, alone, until 1990 when he convinced some other surfers to check it out, this description would seem to fit Jeff Clark perfectly, discovering and surfing, alone, some of the largest waves on the planet. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Clark Jeff Clark Wikipedia entry...] Pynchon himself, as we all know, likes to remain unphotographed.

==Page 101==
'''Surfaris laugh . . . "Hooo-oo-oo-oo---Wipeout!"''' 
[[image:surfaris-dot-decca.jpg|200px|right|thumb|caption|"Wipe Out" - Decca & Dot]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(song) "Wipe Out"] was a 1962 hit originally performed by the Surfaris. You can hear the song, including the insane laugh (provided by their producer/manager Dale Smallin) and a 2x4 being cracked in half, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofdWQG346k here].

The original Dot label version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5WGWX4MPg "Wipe Out"] has the laughter on it that Zigzag and Flaco are arguing about, not the later, and less well-known, Decca re-recording. The Surfaris and "Wipe Out" have a surprisingly tangled history:

:Dot records was the national distributer of "Wipe Out" and the label quickly wanted to capitalize on its success, but rather than use the Surfaris they had The Challengers do covers of other intrumental hits. The only songs that are from the Surfaris on the "Wipe Out" LP are the 2 sides of that single. After the single took off they were quickly brought in to tape an album. It was in the can 12 hours later. Only a week went by before it was out in the record bins. This was a big surprise to the Surfaris. They were even more surprised realize that aside from "Wipe Out" and "Surfer Joe" the remainder of the LP was not them! When they confronted their manager (The Laugh guy in the "Wipe Out" intro), he told them the producers had to add a few overdubs and to listen closer. The more they listened the more they doubted this story. Finally the manager admitted that union musicians had been brought in to do the songs they had recorded. When they realized they had no legal binding contract from Dot records they went off in a huff to Decca records and recorded their ''real'' debut LP, "The Surfaris Play". They were required to re-record "Wipe Out" as Dot did have the rights to it! [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1203]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris Wikipedia entry for the Surfaris...]

==Page 102==
[[image:Barney-Fife_bw.jpg|right|caption|thumb|125px|Barney Fife / Don Knotts]]<div id="barney">'''barney quota'''</div>
"Barney" in this context refers to the character Barney Fife from [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm ''The Andy Griffith Show''] an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1960-1968. Fife was an incompetent blowhard who was overly zealous as a police officer and was played by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Knotts Don Knotts] (1924-2006) [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm More on the Barney Fife character...]

'''in the slow seep of dawn''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikantaza shikantaza]''' 
A Zen Buddhist discipline which recommends "just sitting".

==Page 103==
'''Mira Costa''' 
A [http://www.mchs.manhattan.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=2 high school] in Manhattan Beach, CA.

==Page 104==
'''laterite''' 
Soil layer rich in iron oxide, formed in tropical and sub-tropical regions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia]

==Page 105==
'''"Earth has an immune system, too...like the oil industry"''' 
Recalls Kurt Vonnegut's quote, "We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should." From [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-13-2005/kurt-vonnegut his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart].

'''Atlantis and Lemuria''' 
The mythical continent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent) Lemuria] is mentioned throughout ''Inherent Vice''. Shasta Fay Hepworth's namesake, Mt. Shasta in Northern California is [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm believed by some] to be the home of Lemuria's survivors.

'''Owsley''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley Owsley Stanley.] Famous large-scale supplier of LSD.

==Page 106==
'''Doc's name then was something like Xqq''' 
Doc's name, and the dual-sun planet on which he resided, is reminiscent of Italo Calvino's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics ''Cosmicomics''] (1965) which takes place billions of years ago before Earth and on an early Earth, and has characters with names such as Qfwfq and (k)yK and Lll. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. From the dustjacket blurb:

:The narrator, Qfwfq, spends his childhood in the soundless, timeless void; among the incandescent colors of stellar explosions, he plays with hydrogen atoms like marbles and, sitting astride a galaxy, chases his friend Pfwfp around the firmament. Or, as an adolescent on the new Earth, he has his first shy love affairs with Ayl, Lll, and Mrs. Vhd Vhd...

'''osmium''' 
A chemical element that has the symbol Os and atomic number 76. Osmium is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, and is the densest natural element.

'''you'll be the same size and density''' 
This discussion of Doc's "density" is reminiscent of Mondaugen's Law in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509 ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "Personal density [...] is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth":

:"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your ''now''. It is the familiar "delta t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even as Slothrop now what you're doing ''here'', at the base of this colossal curved embankment... [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509]

Well, Doc, transported to Earth 3 billion years in the future, is certainly dwelling the future and indeed his density is very high. However, the Doc we've come to know here more closely seems to fit the description of someone with a very narrow "sense of Now."

==Page 108==
'''blotter''' 
LSD was frequently distributed in the form of drops of the active chemical dried onto sheets of blotter paper. A single dose would normally be a square of blotter paper approximately 1 cm x 1 cm, holding one drop.

Even today, "blotter" refers to a transcript of the day's events in police vernacular. So this appears to be another instance of Pynchon ... umm ... doping his text with the language of 1940's noir novels.

'''Tiny Tim''' 
Tiny Tim was the stage name for novelty performer Herbert Khaury, best known for his rendition of "Tip-toe Through The Tulips With Me" (1968) and his trademark falsetto vocals and ukelele accompaniment.

The song "The Ice Caps Are Melting" is actually called "The Other Side", and can be found on Tiny's first Reprise album "God Bless Tiny Tim".

The refrain's lyrics include these lines:
:The ice caps are melting, 
:The tide is rushing in. 
:All the world is drowning, 
:To wash away the sin. 

Today's readers might be reminded of global warming when they read this, but in 1970, that would not have been on anyone's mind. Rather, the lyrics should probably be taken at face value - water-related image triggers for part of Doc's acid trip.

==Page 110==
'''They were outside on the beach, it was nighttime''' 
Night, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

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'''Doc called Sancho next morning''' 
Morning, Saturday, March 28, 1970, the fifth day of the narrative.

'''Ginger . . . Skipper . . . Gilligan . . . Thurston Howell III . . . Lovey''' 
All are characters from the 1960s TV show [[G#gilligan|''Gilligan's Island'']]. The "code" would presumably be whether the aspiring actress (Ginger/Shasta) would end up with Gilligan/Doc, or whether she would end up with the rich man (Thurston Howell III/Mickey Wolfmann), who might or might not ever divorce his wife (Lovey/Sloane Wolfmann).

==Page 90==
'''Varathaned hatch-covers''' 
[http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGBrand.asp?bid=12 Varathane] is a brand of wood stains and polyurethane sealants.

'''Charlotte Amalie''' 
The largest city and capital of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Amalie,_United_States_Virgin_Islands US Virgina Islands].

'''Like new debt... from institutions in places like South Dakota that you send away for by filling out the back of match cover''' 
Sauncho's quote here echoes almost exactly Zoyd's thoughts in ''Vineland'' in regard to Isaiah Two Four's business proposition: "expecting some address in a distant state, obtained from a matchbook cover." (p. 19, ''Vineland'')

==Page 91==
'''Thomas Arnould''' 
An error. Should be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Arnould "Joseph Arnould"], who wrote ''Law of Marine Insurance'' (1848).

'''Theophilus Parsons''' 
There were two men ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons father] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons_(professor) son]) named Theopilus Parsons in the nineteenth century. This reference is to the younger one, who published A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and General Average in 1868.

==Page 92==
'''Your stomach isn't it.''' 
A listless way of saying "It's your stomach, so feel free to order whatever horrible food you desire."

'''L'il buddy''' 
Another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. "L'il buddy" was the captain's nickname for Gilligan. See [[#Page 89|page 89]] for another instance of Doc being linked to Gilligan.

Also, Hector calls Zoyd this in ''Vineland'', see p. 26. The contraction is spelled li'l in ''Vineland'' but l'il in ''Inherent Vice''. The former is technically correct, since the elision (the "tt") is after the "i" rather than before it.

Also, this phrase appears in ''Against the Day'', [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_195 pg. 195].

'''Eel Trovatore''' 
A perhaps obvious pun on Il Trovatore, the Verdi opera.

'''head for the toilet''' 
Another pun: the toilet on a boat is called the "head".

'''a tremendous nitroglycerin explosion in Halifax Harbor'''

The largest accidental explosion in history, December 6, 1917. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion]

Note that the 1917 Halifax explosion was not caused by nitroglycerin, but by TNT and other wartime explosives.

'''Burke Stodger''' 
This name is likely derived from a 1910 ''noir''-ish murder-mystery novel ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk. Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop, are two main characters. [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=paternoster+ruby+charles+edmonds+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkqjKBGj4&sig=KGhSLPxiRPQqvVPLhOQ5WNEzSE8&hl=en&ei=mfBrStfrF4uAsgPltqmWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Google Books] Perhaps Pynchon's slyly recycling here some unused stuff from his vast research for ''Against the Day''? A excerpt from Walk's novel:

:"Nasty case," Stodger was imparting, in queer staccato sentences. "Shouldn't have much difficulty, though; responsibility lies between two men. Here all last night. Nobody else. Callahan and O'Brien holdin' 'em. One 's Page's private secretary; fellow named Burke Alexander Stilwell Burke. Peach of a monicker, ain't it? Has all three sections on his cards.

:[...]

:Suddenly she snuggled closer and clasped her hands tightly upon my shoulder. Her hair teased my cheek, and the delicate perfume of it made me light-headed. Twisting her pretty head sideways, she flashed an arch look at me from under her lashes, then glanced quickly away again. Blue eyes and long dark lashes are a potently disturbing combination.

:"Well," she sighed, "the Page case may have cost you a fortune, but it gave you ''me''. And ''I'' for one am very content and happy, Mr. Swift."

==Page 93==
'''a three-hour tour''' 
Yet another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. This is a quote from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycmb7_LvsA theme song].

==Page 94==
'''Hoover Library at Stanford'''

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library--not J. Edgar.

==Page 95==
'''"deep interrogation"''' 
Well, it ''could'' be a reference to throwing folks into the deep blue sea. However, in the 1970s, long before Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and "enhanced interrogation," Britain utilized “deep interrogation” techniques in an effort to defeat the Irish Republican Army. ''Constitutions in Crisis: Political Violence and the Rule of Law'' by John E. Finn (Oxford University Press, 1990) examines how the efforts of two western liberal democracies, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, to cope with domestic terrorism threatens their constitutional integrity. Finn argues first that widespread political violence challenges the presuppositions of constitutional authority in any liberal democracy, namely that reason and deliberation, and not passion or will, can be the basis of political community. He defines "deep interrogation":

:"Deep interrogation" a bureaucratic phrase which takes the place of the simpler word "torture" and is worth of Orwell's ''1984'' is on a different level of immorality than hysterical sadism or the indiscriminate bomb of urban guerrillas. It is something organised with imagination and a knowledge of psychology, calculated and cold blooded ... [http://books.google.com/books?id=3s3ZGy0RAK4C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22deep+interrogation%22+-pynchon&source=bl&ots=sfcbvQr90m&sig=iRr8MpNtWD3Cax-7bqlAwyigsvE&hl=en&ei=JFfZSsr-IIL8sgPgsKGNBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22deep%20interrogation%22%20-pynchon&f=false] ([http://www.amazon.com/Constitutions-Crisis-Political-Violence-Rule/dp/0195057384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255758301&sr=1-1 Buy it...])

==Page 96==
[[image:zuckys.jpg|right|150px|thumb|caption|Zucky's Delicatessen]]'''Zucky's''' 
Pronounced zoo'-keys, Zucky's was run by Zucky and Hy Altman, founders of the SOVA food pantries, and frequented by such celebrities as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - who would meet there for breakfast every morning before continuing on to the gym, back in the day. Closed since 1993, it was located at the corner of Wilshire and 5th Street, in Santa Monica. It was one of the few places open after 10pm in Santa Monica.

'''''Marcus Welby, M.D.''''' 
Hour long medical drama that aired on ABC from '69-'76. Took place in Santa Monica and ranked first in Nielsens for the year 1970. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRmhb7mhiB4 View the opening credits] where Zucky's sign appears on the left side at :08 in.

'''what Cheech and Chong might call matzo-ball jones?''' 
Punned reference to "Basketball Jones", song on Cheech and Chong "Los Cochinos" album with release date 1973.

==Page 97==
'''Philip Marlowe''' 
Raymond Chandler's famous detective, featured in Chandler's many novels set in LA, including ''The Big Sleep'' (1939; his first appearance), ''Farewell My Lovely'', and ''The Long Goodbye''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe] There are many important parallels between Pynchon's Doc and Chandler's Marlowe, especially his world-weariness, his fondness for certain drugs of choice, and a penchant for cracking wise and getting beaten up and worse. (John D. MacDonald's fictional detective Travis McGee is also an important predecessor; see below). Of all Chandler's fiction, ''Farewell My Lovely'' (1940), which many think is Chandler's best, may be most relevant for the plot and themes of ''Inherent Vice''. For instance, in that novel Marlowe stays in a hotel in Venice Beach before going out to Laird Brunette's offshore gambling boat, the ''Montecino''. ''Farewell My Lovely'' also has "rehab" centers that serve as a front for torture and murder; characters with hidden identities; an impossibly convoluted plot; and a literary style that features striking metaphors, similes, and literary allusions. Marlowe is, like Doc, a dark mixture of cynicism, doggedness, and indifference--yet his goodness and inherent virtues can't be killed. To trace the parallels with Chandler's Marlowe, though, is to see how fully Pynchon has transformed and deepened the generic conventions of 1930s and '40s detective fiction (and film noir inspired by it) even as he pays homage to these.

'''Sam Spade''' 
Dashiell Hammett's detective in ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and other crime fiction; in John Huston's famous film based on the novel, he's played by Humphrey Bogart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade]

'''Johnny Staccato''' 
''Johnny Staccato'' is a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. Title character Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes (1929-1989), is a jazz pianist/private detective. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Staccato]

'''Krazy Kat''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat ''Krazy Kat''] was a popular comic strip that ran in newspapers from 1913 to 1944. Ignatz and Offisa Pupp are characters.

'''Steve McGarrett''' 
Detective in the TV show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O ''Hawaii Five-0''], important to both [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_60 ''Vineland''] and ''Inherent Vice.''

'''"but nowadays it's all you see anymore is...fuckin cop shows"''' 
Compare with today's television being saturated with programs which typically feature forensics specialists who inexplicably have the authority to make arrests and conduct interrogations, and are still "just being regular guys, only tryin to do their job, folks, no more threat to nobody's freedom than some dad in a sitcom."

Doc's rant about too many cop shows on TV echoes [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_37#Page_418 Ernie Turnow's rant against TV cop shows on page 418 of ''Bleeding Edge'']. Both characters lament the disappearance on TV of great Private Investigators and the emergence of heroic cops. In ''Inherent Vice'', Doc sees it just beginning ("the tube is saturated with fuckin cop shows"). In ''Bleeding Edge'' Ernie is looking back to when Maxine and her sister were kids watching TV which would be the early 1970s when ''Inherent Vice'' takes place and he'd ground them if he caught them watching a "cop show" "What happened to private eyes, lovable criminals? lost in all that post-sixties propaganda."

'''"Why not get a houseboat up in the Sacramento Delta--smoke, drink, fish, fuck..."''' 
It's tough not to see this as a nod to Doc's brother shamus Travis McGee, the creation of Florida writer John D. MacDonald. McGee lives on a houseboat, taking his "retirement in installments," drinking, lounging on Florida beaches, meeting and inevitably helping beautiful women out of troubles that almost always involve a sinister land broker or two. Along the way Trav usually ends up pontificating about rapacious land developers, the increasingly artificial and isolated American lifestyle, and people's loss of connection with the natural world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee]

This above quote is immediately followed by Doc's '''"Don't forget piss and moan."''' 
Their exchange bears a striking resemblance to dialogue from Woody Allen's 1970s romantic comedy ''Annie Hall''. The main love interest comments on the care free life of Californians, "It's wonderful. I mean, you know they just watch movies all day." To which Woody's neurotic hero quips "Yeah, and gradually get old and die." One can draw a respectable number of parallels between Pynchon and Allen: both have strong ties to New York, both tend to write highly paranoid characters, and both enjoy giving California a hard time. Hell, they were even born around the same couple years. Funnily enough, ''Annie Hall'''s protagonist seems to have the exact opposite opinion on dope as Doc.

==Page 98==
'''Sunrise was on the way''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative, and Easter Sunday.

:March 29 doesn't ''quite'' jibe with "It was late winter in Gordita" (line 5) or, on [[#Page_102|page 102]], "the wintertime smell of crude oil..." (line 11). Spring comes sometime between the 19th to the 23rd of March, so according to Pynchon here we're sometime before March 29, yes?

[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KLAX/1970/3/29/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Los+Angeles+International&req_state=CA&req_statename=California Here] is the weather for March 29--a pretty average day by L.A. standards.

'''[T]he engine sounds were not passing across the sky where they should have . . .''' 
An apparent allusion to the opening line of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. As a consequence of this, "everybody's dreams got disarranged," which also seems to be happening on ''GR's'' first page.

==Page 99==
'''two plastic skegs''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeg skeg] is a fin attached to rear of a surfboard.

'''Waimea''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea_Bay Waimea Bay], on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii, is one of the planet's premier big-wave surfing locations, with gigantic swells in winter. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHHqw_OniU Video.]

'''Maverick's''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Big wave] in Northern California. Trivia alert: apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried, but failed, to surf the wave. While no one was surfing this now famous wave until the mid-70s, it had been known about at least since 1961. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcioR3ElH60 Video.]

'''Todos Santos''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQtzxGEG6Y Video] of these big waves [http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/surfing/surf-photos.htm near Baja.]

'''riding goofyfoot''' 
This is a surfing/skateboarding term for someone who rides left-footed. So-called regular foot riders keep their left foot at the front of the board, but goofyfoot riders put their right foot at the front. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footedness here].

'''Doc, also up early''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''double-cross whites''' 
[http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetTerms/ByType.asp?intTypeID=9 Amphetamines].

==Page 100==
'''a surfer or two who'd found and ridden other breaks [...] unphotographed and unrecorded''' 
Even though Pynchon's reference to Mavericks would seem an anachronism, as no one other than a couple surfers had even tried Mavericks until Jeff Clark began riding the gigantic break in 1975, alone, until 1990 when he convinced some other surfers to check it out, this description would seem to fit Jeff Clark perfectly, discovering and surfing, alone, some of the largest waves on the planet. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Clark Jeff Clark Wikipedia entry...] Pynchon himself, as we all know, likes to remain unphotographed.

==Page 101==
'''Surfaris laugh . . . "Hooo-oo-oo-oo---Wipeout!"''' 
[[image:surfaris-dot-decca.jpg|200px|right|thumb|caption|"Wipe Out" - Decca & Dot]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(song) "Wipe Out"] was a 1962 hit originally performed by the Surfaris. You can hear the song, including the insane laugh (provided by their producer/manager Dale Smallin) and a 2x4 being cracked in half, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofdWQG346k here].

The original Dot label version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5WGWX4MPg "Wipe Out"] has the laughter on it that Zigzag and Flaco are arguing about, not the later, and less well-known, Decca re-recording. The Surfaris and "Wipe Out" have a surprisingly tangled history:

:Dot records was the national distributer of "Wipe Out" and the label quickly wanted to capitalize on its success, but rather than use the Surfaris they had The Challengers do covers of other intrumental hits. The only songs that are from the Surfaris on the "Wipe Out" LP are the 2 sides of that single. After the single took off they were quickly brought in to tape an album. It was in the can 12 hours later. Only a week went by before it was out in the record bins. This was a big surprise to the Surfaris. They were even more surprised realize that aside from "Wipe Out" and "Surfer Joe" the remainder of the LP was not them! When they confronted their manager (The Laugh guy in the "Wipe Out" intro), he told them the producers had to add a few overdubs and to listen closer. The more they listened the more they doubted this story. Finally the manager admitted that union musicians had been brought in to do the songs they had recorded. When they realized they had no legal binding contract from Dot records they went off in a huff to Decca records and recorded their ''real'' debut LP, "The Surfaris Play". They were required to re-record "Wipe Out" as Dot did have the rights to it! [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1203]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris Wikipedia entry for the Surfaris...]

==Page 102==
[[image:Barney-Fife_bw.jpg|right|caption|thumb|125px|Barney Fife / Don Knotts]]<div id="barney">'''barney quota'''</div>
"Barney" in this context refers to the character Barney Fife from [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm ''The Andy Griffith Show''] an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1960-1968. Fife was an incompetent blowhard who was overly zealous as a police officer and was played by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Knotts Don Knotts] (1924-2006) [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm More on the Barney Fife character...]

'''in the slow seep of dawn''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikantaza shikantaza]''' 
A Zen Buddhist discipline which recommends "just sitting".

==Page 103==
'''Mira Costa''' 
A [http://www.mchs.manhattan.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=2 high school] in Manhattan Beach, CA.

==Page 104==
'''laterite''' 
Soil layer rich in iron oxide, formed in tropical and sub-tropical regions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia]

==Page 105==
'''"Earth has an immune system, too...like the oil industry"''' 
Recalls Kurt Vonnegut's quote, "We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should." From [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-13-2005/kurt-vonnegut his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart].

'''Atlantis and Lemuria''' 
The mythical continent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent) Lemuria] is mentioned throughout ''Inherent Vice''. Shasta Fay Hepworth's namesake, Mt. Shasta in Northern California is [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm believed by some] to be the home of Lemuria's survivors.

'''Owsley''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley Owsley Stanley.] Famous large-scale supplier of LSD.

==Page 106==
'''Doc's name then was something like Xqq''' 
Doc's name, and the dual-sun planet on which he resided, is reminiscent of Italo Calvino's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics ''Cosmicomics''] (1965) which takes place billions of years ago before Earth and on an early Earth, and has characters with names such as Qfwfq and (k)yK and Lll. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. From the dustjacket blurb:

:The narrator, Qfwfq, spends his childhood in the soundless, timeless void; among the incandescent colors of stellar explosions, he plays with hydrogen atoms like marbles and, sitting astride a galaxy, chases his friend Pfwfp around the firmament. Or, as an adolescent on the new Earth, he has his first shy love affairs with Ayl, Lll, and Mrs. Vhd Vhd...

'''osmium''' 
A chemical element that has the symbol Os and atomic number 76. Osmium is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, and is the densest natural element.

'''you'll be the same size and density''' 
This discussion of Doc's "density" is reminiscent of Mondaugen's Law in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509 ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "Personal density [...] is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth":

:"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your ''now''. It is the familiar "delta t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even as Slothrop now what you're doing ''here'', at the base of this colossal curved embankment... [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509]

Well, Doc, transported to Earth 3 billion years in the future, is certainly dwelling the future and indeed his density is very high. However, the Doc we've come to know here more closely seems to fit the description of someone with a very narrow "sense of Now."

==Page 108==
'''blotter''' 
LSD was frequently distributed in the form of drops of the active chemical dried onto sheets of blotter paper. A single dose would normally be a square of blotter paper approximately 1 cm x 1 cm, holding one drop.

Even today, "blotter" refers to a transcript of the day's events in police vernacular. So this appears to be another instance of Pynchon ... umm ... doping his text with the language of 1940's noir novels.

'''Tiny Tim''' 
Tiny Tim was the stage name for novelty performer Herbert Khaury, best known for his rendition of "Tip-toe Through The Tulips With Me" (1968) and his trademark falsetto vocals and ukelele accompaniment.

The song "The Ice Caps Are Melting" is actually called "The Other Side", and can be found on Tiny's first Reprise album "God Bless Tiny Tim".

The refrain's lyrics include these lines:
:The ice caps are melting, 
:The tide is rushing in. 
:All the world is drowning, 
:To wash away the sin. 

Today's readers might be reminded of global warming when they read this, but in 1970, that would not have been on anyone's mind. Rather, the lyrics should probably be taken at face value - water-related image triggers for part of Doc's acid trip.

==Page 110==
'''They were outside on the beach, it was nighttime''' 
Night, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

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